Go Rules

10 pages in this section.

Learn how community rules and checklists extend the official Effective Go guide, helping teams enforce Go idioms and make repeatable decisions for libraries and services.

Go Go Rules Explainer Effective

Go Rules Quickstart

Learn Go rules with 10 examples, including 7 basic and 3 intermediate. Install Go, create a module, and explore gofmt and error handling.

Go Go Rules Basics Rules

Effective Go Rules Checklist

Learn 25 distilled rules from Effective Go and community practice. Use this checklist to onboard, audit packages, and create team policies.

Go Go Rules List Checklist

API Design Rules for Go Libraries

Learn Go API design best practices for library authors. This cheatsheet covers naming, error handling, context usage, and avoiding breaking changes.

Go Go Rules List Cheatsheet

Concurrency Rules Checklist

Go Go Rules List Checklist

Module & Dependency Rules

Learn Go module and dependency rules for go.mod hygiene. This cheatsheet covers semver, minimal dependencies, and internal package boundaries.

Go Go Rules List Cheatsheet

Security Rules for Go Services

Go Go Rules List Cheatsheet

Performance Rules: When to Optimize

Learn when to optimize Go code with a decision flow and green-light signals. Discover how to use profiling tools and interpret results for performance improvements.

Go Go Rules List Cheatsheet

Go Rules & Best Practices Summary

Explore a cross-cutting index of Go best practices, linking to specialized checklists for concurrency, modules, security, and performance.

Go Go Rules Best Practices List

Go Rules Highlights Summary

A single-page roundup of every highlight bullet from the 9 pages in the Go Rules section, grouped by source page so you can scan all 47 takeaways without opening each article individually.

Highlights Summary Go Rules

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