Learning Go: An Idiomatic Approach to Real-World Go Programming

Very well written book with in depth details of go language

The author does a very nice job of discussing all the features of Go, the good and the bad. I read about a third of this book before storing it away on my bookshelf. This is not a reflection on the book's content but simply that there are too many "watch out for this", "don't do this", "this is a common error", and "the compiler won't check for this" aspects of Go that convinced me to avoid this language. There may someday be a Go: The Good Parts book but, until then, if you need to learn Go then I think this is an excellent book that will help you produce the best code possible.

Great book, particularly liked that it shares information about the memory layout, garbage collection and why the code suggested is indeed idiomatic to Go. I got the book as I am picking up the language for a new project at work.

The first edition of this book was already the best of its kind (learning Go). Now the second edition of the same book is even better and covers the latest release of Go (v1.22 at the time of writing), with exercises. I highly recommend this book for people wanting to learn Go. Just one small caveat: it's better if you already know another programming language (the author teaches Go, not computer programming).

I enjoyed the first edition, and this second edition is an improvement on an already great book on Go. Coverage of the concepts is thorough without being difficult to get through, an underrated thing in technical books. I also enjoyed the addition of exercises in the 2nd version.