Stop Writing Go Like It's Java: 5 Patterns You Need to Unlearn
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My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub Me: gabrielanhaia You came from Python/Java/TypeScript. You picked up Go syntax in a weekend. Your code compiles, it runs, the tests pass. And it's still wrong — in ways that'll bite you at 3 AM when your service handles real traffic. The problem isn't that you don't know Go. It's that you know too much of something else. Years of Java design patterns, Python idioms, and TypeScript habits have trained your instincts, and those instincts are actively wor