category: golang

For the last 6 months I have been using Go as my primary development language and for a large part of that I have been using sublime text 3. Along the way the go developers have released quite a few handy and time saving tools which have all been supported by GoSublime with some assembly required. This post will provide a rundown on how to setup go-sublime and the array of tools which make golang development as productive as possible....

Currently golang has no standard package manager; this in my view makes it a harder for those new to the language. golang has for the most part been a pleasure to use, built-in features are well thought out and help new users get started fast. Dependency management is by contrast a jarring and painful experience for those starting with golang. To understand why I believe this is the case I have put together a proposal of sorts for a package manager....