Dave Cheney • 10/6/2019

Use internal packages to reduce your public API surface

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This article discusses the history of the pkg/ directory in Go and advocates for using the special internal/ directory to create packages that are only importable within a project. It explains how this mechanism helps developers control their public API surface, manage visibility, and avoid creating unwieldy packages, promoting better software design in Go projects.

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