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Go Systems Programming

You're reading from   Go Systems Programming Master Linux and Unix system level programming with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125643
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Go and Unix Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Programs in Go 3. Advanced Go Features 4. Go Packages, Algorithms, and Data Structures 5. Files and Directories 6. File Input and Output 7. Working with System Files 8. Processes and Signals 9. Goroutines - Basic Features 10. Goroutines - Advanced Features 11. Writing Web Applications in Go 12. Network Programming

About Go packages

Packages are for grouping related functions and constants so that you can transfer them easily and use them in your own Go programs. As a result, apart from the main package, packages are not autonomous programs.

There exist many useful Go packages that come with each Go distribution including the following:

  • The net package: This supports portable TCP and UDP connections
  • The http package: This is a part of the net package and offers HTTP server and client implementations
  • The math package: This provides mathematical functions and constants
  • The io package: This deals with primitive input and output operations
  • The os package: This gives you a portable interface to the operating system functionality
  • The time package: This allows you to work with times and dates

For the full list of standard Go packages refer to https://golang.org/pkg/. I strongly advise you to...

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