September 2023
Intermediate to advanced
367 pages
7h 23m
English
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Preface
Go has been around for more than 10 years. It was publicly announced in 2009, and version 1.0 was released in March 2012. Since 2013 it has gained a steady rise in popularity and is frequently listed among the top 10 most popular programming languages in use today. In the past 10 years there have been plenty of books written about Go, including Go Web Programming, which I wrote in 2015. Most of what needs to be written about Go has already been written; however, the language continues to evolve, and there are new generations of would-be Go programmers coming on board.
This book came about because of a podcast interview. In September 2021, in the middle of the pandemic, Natalie Pistunovich hosted a “Go Time” podcast interview, titled “Books that Teach Go,” with my friend, Bill Kennedy, and me regarding our Go books. I spoke about Go Web Programming and my new blog site, Go Recipes, which teaches readers how to do the basic stuff with Go. I wanted to provide a steady stream of know-how to serve as a guide for both would-be and experienced Go programmers.
After the podcast, Natalie mentioned that, coincidentally, O’Reilly was looking for someone to write a Go cookbook. Since I already had been writing Go recipes, I thought it was too much of a fateful encounter to ignore. Natalie put me in contact with O’Reilly, and the rest became history (and is now part of the Preface)!
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