The Way to Go: A Thorough Introduction to the Go Programming Language

This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the new open source programming language Go (in its first stable and maintained release Go 1) from Google.

The language is devised with Java / C#-like syntax so as to feel familiar to the bulk of programmers today, but Go code is much cleaner and simpler to read, thus increasing the productivity of developers.

You will see how Go:

• simplifies programming with slices, maps, structs and interfaces
• incorporates functional prog...