I have found this advice spot-on for more subtle questions, over my last two years of learning and building with Go full time: https://golang.org/doc/effective

I have found this advice spot-on for more subtle questions, over my last two years of learning and building with Go full time: https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html Also see back issues of the Go team blog for insight into concrete implementation realities of slices, interface types, GC and more.