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Go’s tooling is what stuck with me the most. gofmt is flawless, even on case statements, no matter how hard I try to trick it, it always formats the file correctly. Cross-compilation with GOOS/GOARCH is excellent, shipping a single self-contained binary is genuinely nice to hand off, and the command line tooling is great too. I like that the implementation stays transparent instead of hiding behind framework magic, and I prefer simple structs with methods over deep inheritance hierarchies. Head First Go gave me real confidence with the language, and Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go taught me a lot about building command-line apps, even in languages other than Go, like how easy it is to write a markdown previewer when the standard library gives you so much for free, and to always check out a new language’s argument-parsing frameworks early. Even // comments felt natural to me.

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