Curated source guide

Go source explorer

Explore the Go programming language source code. Study the Go compiler, runtime scheduler, garbage collector, go command, modules, and standard library internals.

Guide chapters

1. Chapter 1 - Source Tree Mental Model
2. Chapter 2 - Compiler Pipeline
3. Chapter 3 - Runtime Scheduler And Goroutines
4. Chapter 4 - Garbage Collection And Memory
5. Chapter 5 - Go Command And Builds
6. Chapter 6 - Standard Library And Analysis Packages

Key directories

• src/ — Vendoring model for the standard library and cmd modules
• src/cmd/ — Contains toolchain commands, including go, compile, asm, link, vet, and dist.
• src/runtime/ — Contains runtime support for execution, scheduling, memory, and OS bindings.
• src/go/ — Contains public parser, AST, token, doc, and type-checking packages.
• test/ — Contains language, compiler, runtime, and regression tests.
• src/cmd/compile/ — Official map of compiler phases