Get Programming with Go is a beginner's guide to the Go programming language containing 32 quick lessons with plenty of fun exercises and silly gopher illustrations.
It's now available in print, and my publisher has made it the deal of the day today (September 19th, 2018). Get half off the ebook and print versions, with international shipping available.
The only problem is that you need to maintain and enhance that MVP for the next several years -- unless it's just a hackathon.
I've spent way too much of my life trying to optimize Ruby performance and memory usage, switching from one web server to the next, then fixing threading issues in dependencies, and so on. It's not fun. All that upfront productivity is lost in the end.
Quite happy to spend more time upfront investing in a reliable end-product.
There was also the matter of figuring out llvm in order to use it. The initial Go compiler was based on the Plan 9 C compiler toolchain, which the designers of Go know well.
One of the other reasons relates to how stacks are handled for goroutines.
There are active discussions on the Go Package Management mailing list and the intention to propose further improvements to the go toolchain for future releases. We had good discussions with the Go Team during GopherCon last month.
It's now available in print, and my publisher has made it the deal of the day today (September 19th, 2018). Get half off the ebook and print versions, with international shipping available.
Deal of the Day: https://yng.mn/dotd