Go Modern Guidelines
Help AI coding agents write modern Go code with best practices and community standards.
Introduction
Go Modern Guidelines is an open-source project maintained by JetBrains, designed to provide AI coding assistants with a set of guidelines for writing modern Go code. It helps AI tools generate code that follows community best practices, maintains consistent style, and is easy to maintain, thereby improving development efficiency and code quality.
Key Features
- Provides detailed Go coding conventions covering naming, structure, error handling, concurrency, and other core topics.
- Offers clear instructions for AI coding assistants to adhere to modern Go practices.
- Includes rich positive and negative examples, visually illustrating recommended and discouraged approaches.
- Continuously updated to keep pace with the evolving Go ecosystem.
Highlights
- Authoritative: Maintained by JetBrains, leveraging its extensive experience in IDE development.
- Targeted: Specifically designed for AI coding assistants to optimize their output quality.
- Community-driven: Open source and accepts contributions, ensuring the guidelines stay current.
- Easy to integrate: Can be used directly as context for AI tools, or for code review and teaching.
Who It's For
This is for Go developers using AI coding assistants, teams aiming to improve code quality, and AI tool developers or researchers. Whether for personal projects or enterprise applications, they can all benefit.
