Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderGo does have some nice, clean resources, provided by the core language group and users. I find golang.org to be quite helpful. If you're interested in learning Go, I suggest Go's A Tour of Go to start: http://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 There is a previous discussion of Go by Example if you want to mine the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7075515 There is also Effective Go for learning about, well, idiomatic Go: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html And there is a previous discussion of Effective…
It's Friday gents! No excuse to set aside Saturday and Sunday, you can easily go through these examples in two days and grok it. Go is that _slim_, and that's good! Guaranteed you'll find use for Go in one system or the other when you want easy deployment, fast development time and extreme speeds. :) (Disclaimer: I love Go and I hope it goes mainstream in a big way in 5 years)
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 745
- Total comments
- 196
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-10-12 | Go by Example | joeyespo | 3 | 0 |
| 2013-10-12 | Go by example | Goranek | 4 | 0 |
| 2014-01-17 | Go by ExampleFirst breakout | A_Ghz | 301 | 124 |
| 2015-05-01 | Go by Example | lobo_tuerto | 17 | 0 |
| 2016-03-04 | Go by ExampleHall induction · Best thread | kercker | 392 | 72 |
| 2019-02-21 | Learn Go (Golang) by Using Examples | ftp-bit | 2 | 0 |
| 2019-09-24 | Go by Example | ggregoire | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-03-09 | Go by Example (2016) | ddtaylor | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-05-07 | Go by ExampleLatest 20+ point return | 6581 | 21 | 0 |
| 2024-07-07 | Go by Example | behnamoh | 2 | 0 |