Go Learning

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• Go

Books

• Microservices with Go. Building scalable and reliable microservices with Go by Alexander Shuiskov
• The Go Programming Language by Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan
• Efficient Go by Bartlomiej Plotka

Subjects

• Probably don’t need Go_Language_Concurrency , replace it with Go_Language_Goroutines
• De-khaki first-iteration Go pages. Start here Go_Language#TO_DEPLETE_and_MERGE_into_THIS_DOCUMENT
• Go had no exceptions, what is the idiomatic way to handle errors? Handling errors after each function call seems noisy. Continue here: Go_Language_Error_Handling#TO_DEPLETE.
• Idiomatic documentation in Go. How do I document functions? Types? Classes? Continue here: Go_Documentation#TO_DEPLETE.
• Packages:
  • Understand package names like encoding/json. What is the underlying structure that result is such a naming scheme?
  • Continue here: Go_Language_Modularization#TODO.
• Understand why we can simply declare a struct with var, but not a map. Why do we need to make() the map?
• Go_Slices#NJUL
• Revisit and refactor Go_Integers#Conversion_between_bytes_and_strings
• JSON_in_Go#TO_PROCESS
• The difference between new() and make(). Why two?
• In depth understanding of Printf() formatting options.

Articles

• https://yourbasic.org/golang/advantages-over-java-python/
• https://thenewstack.io/rust-vs-go-why-theyre-better-together/
• https://www.infoq.com/presentations/go-iron-production/