Go should be more opinionated

TL;DR:

The author argues that Go should provide more opinionated guidance on application structure and project layout. While Go excels at having "one way to do things" for language features (formatting, loops, etc.), it lacks official guidance for organizing larger projects.

Key points:
- Go's simplicity makes it easy to learn, but structuring real-world projects becomes challenging
- Teams spend significant time researching and deciding on project structure
- Official templates for common patterns (CLIs, APIs, microservices) would help
- Similar to how go mod solved dependency management fragmentation
- Would especially benefit teams migrating from opinionated frameworks like Spring Boot or Laravel

Bottom line: Go needs official project scaffolding tools (like go new) to extend its opinionated philosophy beyond language syntax to application architecture.

https://eltonminetto.dev/en/post/2025-06-19-go-more-opinated

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Go should be more opinionated

TL;DR:

The author argues that Go should provide more opinionated guidance on application structure and project layout. While Go excels at having "one way to do things" for language features (formatting, loops, etc.), it lacks official guidance for organizing larger projects.

Key points:
- Go's simplicity makes it easy to learn, but structuring real-world projects becomes challenging
- Teams spend significant time researching and deciding on project structure
- Official templates for common patterns (CLIs, APIs, microservices) would help
- Similar to how go mod solved dependency management fragmentation
- Would especially benefit teams migrating from opinionated frameworks like Spring Boot or Laravel

Bottom line: Go needs official project scaffolding tools (like go new) to extend its opinionated philosophy beyond language syntax to application architecture.

https://eltonminetto.dev/en/post/2025-06-19-go-more-opinated

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