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Great resource for beginners. Though I've noticed a trend when trying to familiarize myself with languages and Golang in particular: examples tend to be too simple and I've found myself struggling once I tried to create more "real-life" things with it (similar to hello world or server examples on Node.js).

Though this is most likely personal/anecdotal and the website is an invaluable resource for a beginner. Well done.

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Perhaps one of these resources can show more advanced use cases: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Books

Have you read The Go Programming Language by Donovan and Kernighan?

- Book Site: http://www.gopl.io/

- Book Example Source Code: https://github.com/adonovan/gopl.io/

I highly recommend this book. I find it the best Go book out there right now. Manning's "Go in Action" isn't nearly as good as Donovan & Kernighan's work.

One of the things I absolutely love about Go is that the standard library is so readable and accessible. It's been a great resource for learning by example, especially for some fairly complex design patterns.

Agreed. I feel like the struggling when actually implementing the language for a real project/product is normal.

I think this is because programming languages are built with performance, readability, and writability in mind. I've yet to come across a programming language that was specifically built to make it easy to use to build a software product (plenty of frameworks though, ex Rails).

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