Hands-On Dependency Injection in Go

Follow industry, team, and language conventions

Concepts, variables, and function names all just make sense when they follow conventions. Ask yourself, if you are working on a system about cars, what would you expect a variable called flower to be?

Coding style is arguably something that Go got right. For many years, I was part of the bracket placement and the tab versus spaces wars, but when switching to Go, all of that changed. There is a fixed, documented, and easily reproducible style—run gofmt, problem solved. There are still some places where you can hurt yourself. Coming from a language with unchecked exceptions, you might be tempted to use Go's panic() phrase; while possible, it is one of several conventions explicitly discouraged ...