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Actually, after a quick examination of the Go libraries, I'm not sure I can agree that it's "idiomatic Go". I still see many things that strike me as "artifacts of the C conversion" more than "the way someone would have written this from scratch".

The careful package split is something to be copied, though.

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The conversion from C to Go was done in 2014, so it is surprising that it is not complete yet.

See "Go, From C to Go by Russ Cox" (with video) at https://github.com/gophercon/2014-talks

it is complete, but it's a conversion, not a rewrite. i doubt anyone will spend the time to rewrite the compiler in idiomatic Go soon. bigger fish to fry :)

Where is a good place to read "idiomatic Go?"

Much of the rest of the standard library. The compiler portion is a special case.

The standard library.

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