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Roberto Selbach
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Roberto Selbach's personal blog at roberto.selbach.ca covers programming. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Introduction to Go Modules”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this author's intro to Go modules as a tutorial for learning the module system, including how it compares to npm. Commenters describe it as a good intro and a great tutorial.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Introduction to Go Modules4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-08-19
What Hacker News says?
The official wiki is good: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules This article looks like a good intro: https://roberto.selbach.ca/intro-to-go-modules/ The equivalent of "npm install" is "go get" (optionally "-u"). You can also edit go.mod manually. Like NPM, this must be done within an application's root. A point of confusion might be the difference between a module and a package. A package is just a folder that…
Comment linking /intro-to-go-modules/
on “Next steps toward Go 2”Submitted Introduction to Go Modules as a story · 252 points
HN discussionA more detailed intro to Go Modules: https://roberto.selbach.ca/intro-to-go-modules/
Comment linking /intro-to-go-modules/
on “Just tell me how to use Go Modules”Submitted Playing with Go module proxies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere's also this great tutorial[0] that has been making the rounds these last couple of weeks. [0] https://roberto.selbach.ca/intro-to-go-modules/
Comment linking /intro-to-go-modules/
on “Go 1.11 released”Submitted Go modules proxy as a story · 2 points
HN discussion