The Only Coding Standard You'll Ever Need

Re:The Only Coding Standard You'll Ever Need by georgemcbay on Friday August 10, 2012 @02:12PM (#4367406)

I've recently come around to the Go way of thinking.. the coding standard is that the the code compiles and has been run through gofmt.

As a lifelong new-line-bracer, it was a bit of a pain for me to swallow some bits of the enforced Go syntax, but having the language tools be the ultimate arbiter of many coding standard decisions (things like function and variable names is still up to you) turns out to be great because virtually all of those decisions are just bike-shedding and having an enforced standard just eliminates all of that and makes it so much easier to read anyone else's Go code once you get used to the standards.

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Re:The Only Coding Standard You'll Ever Need by comatose_kid on Friday August 10, 2012 @03:11PM (#4367713)

I was just about to write and say the same thing. Establishing and adhering to conventions is tedious and often diverts focus from the problem at hand.

Go is fun, and things like gofmt and the fast compile speed do make it a productive language.

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