Michael finished reading Let's Go by Alex Edwards
Let's Go by Alex Edwards
Let’s Go teaches you step-by-step how to create fast, secure and maintainable web applications using the fantastic programming language Go.
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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 …