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Tanmay Teaches Go: The Ideal Language for Backend Developers
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Tanmay Teaches Go: The Ideal Language for Backend Developers

by Tanmay Bakshi, Baheer Kamal
May 2021
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 42m
English
McGraw-Hill Education TAB
Content preview from Tanmay Teaches Go: The Ideal Language for Backend Developers

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

Welcome to Tanmay Teaches Go! In this book, the second in the Tanmay Teaches series, you will learn about the world of Go programming. Go is a programming language designed with safety, performance, flexibility, and concurrency in mind. Its design goals fundamentally align with the needs of backend development, where Go has found the most value.

Once you’ve finished this chapter, you’ll be able to answer the following questions:

•   What are Go’s design goals that make the Go language special, and what are some of its drawbacks?

•   What platforms does Go support, and where can it be used?

•   Why is Go’s compiler so special?

•   What are Go’s memory management and its Garbage Collector?

•   How does concurrency make the ...

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