📚 References & Further Reading

1. 🦫 Official & Foundational Resources

The Go Programming Language Tour — The official interactive introduction to Go, from syntax to concurrency.
Effective Go — The canonical guide to writing clear, idiomatic Go code.
Go Proverbs (by Rob Pike) — Core philosophies behind Go’s design, presented by one of its creators.
Go Blog — Deep dives from the Go team on language design, interfaces, and patterns.

Go: Code Review Comments — Community guidelines that shape idiomatic Go.
Practical Go: Real world advice for writing maintainable Go programs — A presentation by Dave Cheney focused on simplicity and maintainability.
Errors are values — Blog post explaining Go’s explicit error-handling philosophy.
Go interfaces: the bigger picture — Explains why Go interfaces are defined by consumers, not producers.
Avoid premature abstractions in Go — Dave Cheney’s article contrasting Go design with OOP abstractions.

From OOP to Go — How to shift from class-based thinking to Go’s composition-based style.
Go for Java Developers — A great comparative overview of Go vs Java paradigms.
Go for Object-Oriented Programmers — Highlights key differences and mindset shifts.
Idiomatic Go — A short, curated list of idiomatic Go principles.

Go Concurrency Patterns (GopherCon Talk) — Rob Pike’s must-watch talk on goroutines and channels.
Context package blog post — Explains Go’s context-based cancellation and timeout system.
Go testing package docs — Official documentation for Go’s built-in testing framework.

Standard Go Project Layout — Popular community convention for organizing Go projects.
Go Modules and Packages — Official guide for dependency management.
Clean Architecture in Go (by Ben Johnson) — Discusses pragmatic project structure.