Go for PHP Developers

Moving to Go

Migration Economics

2026-04-17T12:05:42+00:00

You must rewrite PHP applications in Go from scratch using Go's static typing, structs, and concurrency primitives, as there is no direct migration path.

You cannot directly "move" PHP code to Go; you must rewrite your application logic using Go's syntax, standard library, and concurrency model. Start by defining your data structures with struct, implementing business logic with func, and replacing PHP's dynamic arrays with Go slices or maps.

package main

import "fmt"

type User struct {
	ID   int
	Name string
}

func main() {
	users := []User{{1, "Alice"}, {2, "Bob"}}
	for _, u := range users {
		fmt.Printf("User %d: %s\n", u.ID, u.Name)
	}
}