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Practical Systems Programming in Go
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Practical Systems Programming in Go

by Mihalis Tsoukalos
March 2026
Intermediate
588 pages
14h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Essential Go

In the world of computing, simplicity is often mistaken for weakness, yet time and experience reveal that simplicity is where strength truly lies. Go, a modern programming language designed for simplicity, efficiency, and scalability, embraces this truth with conviction. It forgoes ornamentation in favor of clarity and avoids magic in favor of transparency. Born out of Google's need for a fast, reliable language to handle large-scale systems, Go combines the performance of a compiled language with the ease of use of a dynamic one. Whether you are building web servers, cloud applications, or complex command-line tools that support multiple commands and options, the straightforward syntax of Go, the powerful concurrency model, and ...

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