What is Play with Go?

play-with-go.dev is a series of hands-on, interactive, browser-based guides that introduce the tools required to work with the Go programming language. It is the natural next step after “A Tour of Go” which introduces the language itself. play-with-go.dev covers the various subcommands of the go command, staticcheck and many other tools that will make writing Go programs that much easier and fun!

To get started learning with play-with-go.dev, simply visit https://play-with-go.dev/.

If you are interested in learning more about the project, in particular how to contribute, please see the contribution guidelines.

play-with-go.dev is an experiment designed to test the hypothesis that interactive guides are a more engaging medium for learning when it comes to developer tools. The go command and modules lend themselves very well to this type of guide therefore. We need your feedback and suggestions to help steer play-with-go.dev in the right direction!

play-with-go.dev is very much by the community, for the community. The goal is to build a platform of high quality, reviewed and curated content, with a diverse, inclusive and sustainable model for having people contribute and maintain that content. We want to make it easy for people to contribute and review content, enabled by tooling and continuous integration checks.

play-with-go.dev was created by Paul Jolly and Marcos Nils. Guides are built using the popular play-with-docker platform (created by Marcos Nils and Jonathan Leibiusky). Guides are served via https://play-with-go.dev/ and run in a user’s browser, presenting the guide content on the left, and an interactive terminal on the right. This terminal is connected to a remote session hosted in Google’s Cloud.

Potential future enhancements to play-with-go.dev include:

• integrating Visual Studio Code in the remote session, to enable editing files
• supporting different language translations of a guide (that all share the same script)
• supporting multiple scenarios (multiple platforms, different tool versions) of the same guide

If you have any questions, please feel free to raise an issue or contact us directly.