From the course: Learning the Go Standard Library

Don't go re-inventing the wheel - Go Tutorial

From the course: Learning the Go Standard Library

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Don't go re-inventing the wheel

- [Joe] The Go programming language has become very popular among the developer community. All kinds of organizations, from small startups to large enterprises, are turning to Go for its simplicity, performance, and focus on modern programming techniques, such as concurrency. A big part of that popularity is also due to the large and growing ecosystem of packages that make up the Go standard library. These packages provide a wide range of pre-built and tested functionality that you can use in your programs. In this course, we'll take an introductory look at several of the more popular and useful packages that address common development scenarios, such as formatting strings for output and display to the user, working with files and directories, and performing common networking tasks, like HTTP requests and processing internet data formats like JSON and XML. Today, programming languages succeed not just on their technical merits, but on the richness of their standard libraries as well, and Go has one of the best out there. Let's get started learning the Go standard library.

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