If you haven’t seen them, do take a look at these slides on Go readability, from one of Google’s Go readability group.
Readability is an important process at Google. In theory, it’s about ensuring the style guide for a language is applied. In practice, it’s also about ensuring that idiomatic code is produced. This is highly language specific, and not something that can easily be done with tooling.
In the case of Go readability, it feels like a mentoring process over a series of code reviews (other languages take a more “big-bang” approach). The end result is that I have a better idea of not just how to write Go, but how we like Go to be written at Google. I really appreciate the strong emphasis on simplicity in Go code. Hopefully, that comes through in the slides.
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