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Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go
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Powerful Command-Line Applications in Go

by Ricardo Gerardi
December 2021
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
11h 20m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Foreword

In 2012 I began a journey of experimentation in investigating a new language, Go, which was born at Google and had just reached the 1.0 milestone. I learn best by building so I was looking for a project meaningful enough to actually learn Go. I was growing frustrated with the increasing cost and complexity of my WordPress-powered blog with entirely static content and decided that building a static site generator was the project for me to learn Go. I began writing my first Go project, Hugo[1].

Having previously designed several CMSs and command-line tools, I had a good sense of what I wanted to build. I opened up a terminal and began by typing commands for this not yet existing program to effectively sketch out how the user interface ...

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