I think this is a good idea for beginners, if the golang workflow continues to be un-intuitive. As an experienced programmer that is relatively new to Golang,

I think this is a good idea for beginners, if the golang workflow continues to be un-intuitive. As an experienced programmer that is relatively new to Golang, I feel that the team have simply missed the mark on some of the tooling and basics, that other languages and workflows have had right for decades. It shouldn't matter where I want to check out my code to, or where I decide to store it. GOPATH is great for maintaining dependencies but why should my project code have to go there? However, if you subscribe to the workflow as it is, it's easy to pick up once you have read the documentation. The Workbench could be useful, but I think it would be more of a tutorial to introduce beginners to something they should learn to do by them selves from there on out.