Go experiments

Sometimes, reading the manual pages for some useful go package, I get frustrated, because the description of a vital function will only list parameters and their types (the part that is, or might as well be, automatically generated) but doesn’t list what the function DOES with them, or what caveats apply.

And often it turns out that google can find no pages with good usage examples either.

Also, the examples are often missing, or too basic.

On this site, I will try to rememedy that, by posting my experiences and discoveries when working with Golang modules out there.

Current candidates for added information are the

• go Expect package https://github.com/google/goexpect
• the ImageMagick package. https://github.com/gographics/imagick
• the grafana API client https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/grafana/grafana-api-golang-client

The way I will remedy it is by trying to do things with these packages, showing what works (and what doesn’t), with code posted here, and if it should be needed, in a github/gitlab somewhere.

More ideas might be found in https://threedots.tech/post/list-of-recommended-libraries/ - 22 libraries.

Or in https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/109uucd/list_of_most_often_used_libraries/

Curated list of go modules: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go