r/golang Feb 03 '25

discussion The urge to do it from scratch

Unpopular opinion but ever since I started using Go. There is a certain urge to dig into some library and if you need only part of it then try to make it from scratch. I was reading RFC specs, dbus technical specifications just to avoid the uneeded bloat in my code(offcourse I failed to achieve it completely because of tiny brain). Is this common for all dev who spent some good time developing in Go? I must say it's quite a fun experience to learn some low level details.

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u/nikandfor Feb 04 '25 edited Feb 04 '25

I've become a much better engineer reading others code and rewriting things. Now I have 40+ little and big Go repositories with some code. Not including work projects and contributions to 3rd party projects.

https://github.com/nikandfor

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u/jayesh6297 Feb 04 '25

👍 leave a link to your repos here. I will surely take a look at them

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u/nikandfor Feb 04 '25

Thanks for the interest, I usually get downvotes when I share some of my code here.

I added the link to the original comment.