The Go Programming Language

Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan

A comprehensive guide to Go, aimed at helping programmers write clear, idiomatic, and efficient Go code. The book starts with a tutorial on basic Go concepts through examples like file I/O, text processing, simple graphics, and web clients/servers. It then delves into data types, program structure, packages, methods, interfaces, and Go’s concurrency features—goroutines, channels, and shared-variable concurrency. Later chapters explore testing, reflection, unsafe operations, and interfacing with C using cgo. The text is structured with exercises at the end of each chapter and all code examples are available for download via `go get` from gopl.io. ## Topics & Themes Focuses on Go idioms, language design decisions, standard library usage, and concurrency primitives. Reflects a balance between practical programming skills and deeper insight into Go’s philosophy and implementation. ##...