Tips and tools for writing lean and easy-to-maintain Go code

In the upcoming sections, we will be covering some techniques, tools, and best practices that can assist you in writing more concise and clean code that is easier to test and at the same time help you get some praise from your colleagues and code reviewers.

Most of the topics that we will be discussing are specific to Go, but some of the principles can be generalized and applied to other programming languages and software engineering in general.

Optimizing function implementations for readability

During my early university days, my CS professors would be adamant about keeping function blocks short and concise. Their advice went along the lines of the following:

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