September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
466 pages
9h 33m
English
Go is a modern generic purpose open source programming language that was officially announced at the end of 2009. It began as an internal Google project and has been inspired by many other programming languages including C, Pascal, Alef, and Oberon. Its spiritual fathers are Robert Griesemer, Ken Thomson, and Rob Pike, who designed Go as a language for professional programmers who want to build reliable and robust software. Apart from its syntax and standard functions, Go comes with a pretty rich standard library.
At the time of writing this book, the latest stable Go version is 1.8, which includes some handy new features including the following: feel free to skip this if you have not used Go before:
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