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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
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CHAPTER 6

Interoperability

Welcome to Chapter 6! In this chapter, we’ll take the concept of “reusing code” one step further. When we’ve finished, you’ll not only be able to import external codebases written in Go (known as modules), you’ll also be able to import other codebases written in other languages!

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

•   In what format do operating systems understand the binaries generated by compilers?

•   What is a language’s “runtime”? What effect does it have on the programming experience and compiled code?

•   How can multiple programs on the same operating system share the same basic pre-compiled binary code?

•   Why is inter-language operability important?

•   How ...

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