Chapter 2. Go quick-start
In this chapter
- Reviewing a comprehensive Go program
- Declaring types, variables, functions, and methods
- Launching and synchronizing goroutines
- Writing generic code using interfaces
- Handling errors as normal program logic
Go has its own elegance and programming idioms that make the language productive and fun to code in. The language designers set out to create a language that would let them be productive without losing access to the lower-level programming constructs they needed. This balance is achieved through a minimized set of keywords, built-in functions, and syntax. Go also provides a comprehensive standard library. The standard library provides all the core packages programmers need to build real-world ...
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