Go Best Practices

Styles are the conventions that govern our code. The term style is a bit of misnomer, since these conventions cover far more than just source file formatting—gofmt handles that for us.

The goal of this guide is to manage this complexity by describing in detail the Dos and Don'ts of writing Go code at Direkt. These rules exist to keep the code base manageable while still allowing developers to use Go language features productively. Created based on the Uber Go Style Guide.

When to Apply

Reference these guidelines when:

• Writing new Go code
• Reviewing code for performance issues
• Refactoring existing Go code
• Optimizing performance, latency, or allocations