Cleaning Your Go Code

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One permanent takeaway from being a teaching assistant for college computer science courses was the value of readable, idiomatic code. When you had to thoughtfully review, back to back, many similar code samples, you don’t want them to be obfuscated. That lesson has served me well professionally, coming into play during key developer tasks like pull requests and maintaining code. Upgrading code from working to readable (and, therefore maintainable)…