How to Speak Go When You Think in PHP

A practical translation guide for PHP devs learning to speak fluent Go.

At first glance, Go feels deceptively simple. There are fewer language features, less magic, and almost no opinionated structure. But once you start actually building with it - especially coming from the dynamic and highly abstracted world of PHP - it becomes clear that Go forces you to unlearn quite a few habits.

I’ve caught myself trying to reach for t…