3 posts tagged with "go"

I find dependency management and package managers interesting. Each language has its own package manager, and each one has characteristics that are specific to that community. NuGet for .NET has great tooling and Visual Studio support, since that's important to the .NET developer audience. NPM has a super flexible model, and great command line tools.

In a lot of ways, golang is a little quirky. And that's awesome. However - I've really struggled to wrap my head around dependency management in Go.

note: I recently updated this post to make sure all of the commands still work.

I've spent some time recently using the Go programming language for my side web projects. The Go standard libraries are minimal by design - meaning it doesn't come with a prescriptive web framework out of the box. The good news is that there are a ton of options:

2014 was a crazy year. I spent most of the year thinking about client side code while working on the new Azure Portal. I like to use the holiday break as a time to hang out with the family, disconnect from work, and learn about something new. I figured a programming language used for distributed systems was about as far from client side JavaScript as I could get for a few weeks, so I decided to check out golang.

Coming at this from 0 - I used a few resources to get started: