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It's a really good book for getting into Golang. One caveat before I continue: I went into this with a pretty broad background in programming, so I'm not sure how well the book would work for a programming beginner.

First of all: The book does provide what it says on the tin. There's quite some discussion of how to write idiomatic Go in the book, which I like. I don't have problems taking up new syntax for a language, but in the past I've found that all too many books concentrate only on syntax and standard library, but not on what idiomatic code for the language looks like.

What I was positively surprised about while working through the book was that the Go language designers succeeded: They produced a modern, useful programming language that's pretty simple. Go feels quite a lot like when I learned C for the first time, just with fewer footguns.

The book also provides exercises for each chapter, and the solutions are freely available on GitHub. I always like that, as it allows me to do a quick check to see whether I went down the completely wrong path. But, there were a bit too few exercises for my taste. In some chapters, the exercises didn't cover all of the topics discussed in the chapter.

@timo@mastodon.online I've got it on my screen, but at the speed I will likely be going I'm not sure I will get far enough in time. Plus, in the past few years I've found the adventofcode to not be too great for learning/trying a new language. The puzzles themselves are a bit too demanding for me to enjoy while also having to think about my programming language instead of relying on muscle memory.

@zrail@hachyderm.io Yupp, I think it avoids a lot of the sillier fights I'm regularly seeing in the C++ community.

Well, I'm coming from a C and C++ background, so I'm used to painful error handling. ;-)

Starting to get back into programming outside of work again, and considering that a lot of the software I'm running in my Homelab is written in Go, I chose to have another look at that.

I'm coming to really enjoy the Horus Heresy, and in particular this installment. It's nice to see the PoV from a different legion, with different characters taking central stage, but still progressing the the same story.

I also enjoyed that we got a peek into Naval warfare in the Warhammer 40k universe. I hope that there's going to be at least a few proper space battles in the future - and ones between actual ships, and not just "okay, and here is the typical Astartes battle, but now aboard a starship during a boarding action".