Eventually, any interesting software project will come to depend on another project, library, or framework. Packages provide a namespace or a firewall for your code. By firewall I mean, insulate the code in the package from changes in other parts or packages. Entities inside a package (types, functions, variables, and so on) can be exported (public—visible outside the package) or unexported (private—not visible outside the package). The way to control visibility is exactly like the mechanism described for classes: if the identifier name starts with a capital letter, and it is exported from the package, otherwise, it's unexported.
This is an example of a convention over configuration paradigm and is one of the key enablers of encapsulation in Go. The rule of thumb is this:
