But if you're an experienced programmer, why get a book at all? Effective Go and the Go language specification (which unlike most specifications is very readable) tell you what you need to get started.
Oh, I got myself started with online resources and was using Go for some months when I got the book - I mostly got it because of the author, to match my "The C programming language". And because I was reasonably fluent with Go, certainly some parts were redundant for my knowledge, but I was very pleasantly surprised how much I still learned from this book and that is why I recommend it. Sometimes it was a little detail in the sample programs which made me say: oh, I had not thought of that.
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But if you're an experienced programmer, why get a book at all? Effective Go and the Go language specification (which unlike most specifications is very readable) tell you what you need to get started.
Oh, I got myself started with online resources and was using Go for some months when I got the book - I mostly got it because of the author, to match my "The C programming language". And because I was reasonably fluent with Go, certainly some parts were redundant for my knowledge, but I was very pleasantly surprised how much I still learned from this book and that is why I recommend it. Sometimes it was a little detail in the sample programs which made me say: oh, I had not thought of that.