After 40+ years of writing C I'm going to learn Go. Is "The Go Programming Language" still the way? It is 8 years old now and the language has seen more than a few changes between then and now. What books should I be looking at?
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?
#2If you haven't used a more current programming language in terms of tooling, you may be in for a shock: package management, concurrency, formatting and linting are all sorted, with decent support in Visual Studio Code. I'd honestly look at these things first so that you can right-size individual modules, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?
#3When I was first learning I liked this video series.
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/intermediate-go-program...
Also checkout this repo for helpful links: https://awesome-go.com/free-e-books/
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?
#4Read the spec: https://go.dev/ref/spec
Check out the examples: https://gobyexample.com/
Check the docs for anything else: https://go.dev/doc/
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?
#540 yrs jeez.
question sir, why not rust or typescript or python? what makes you want golang?
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#640 yrs jeez. question sir, why not rust or typescript or python? what makes you want golang?
One can only learn these languages after 40 years, or what is your actual point?
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?
#7There’s no Go book that I personally would recommend without hesitation.
Instead, I would suggest that you try to find a bunch of blog posts and lectures and read/watch them in order to get a feeling of the Go philosophy. The official Go blog has some good articles and otherwise I recommend to have a look at what Rob Pike and Russ Cox has written/presented.
Then I believe that as soon as possible it’s a good idea to start some toy project so that you can dive in.
I’m afraid I don’t have too many links to share. This might be a good starting point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VcArS4Wpqk
Here’s a meta-resource that could be useful: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go (see the Resources section at the end of the ToC).
Best of luck!
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?
#8Read the spec: https://go.dev/ref/spec Check out the examples: https://gobyexample.com/ Check the docs for anything else: https://go.dev/doc/
Skimming the spec is not a bad idea. It’s actually quite short.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?
#9Other than some of the resources mentioned already in comments, I highly recommend Alex Edwards books Lets Go and Lets go Further. Helped me a lot and still does when building Web Applications.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Go?
#10Read the spec: https://go.dev/ref/spec Check out the examples: https://gobyexample.com/ Check the docs for anything else: https://go.dev/doc/
This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!