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Mastering Go

You're reading from   Mastering Go Create Golang production applications using network libraries, concurrency, machine learning, and advanced data structures

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838559335
Length 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

1. Go and the Operating System 2. Understanding Go Internals FREE CHAPTER 3. Working with Basic Go Data Types 4. The Uses of Composite Types 5. How to Enhance Go Code with Data Structures 6. What You Might Not Know About Go Packages and Functions 7. Reflection and Interfaces for All Seasons 8. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 9. Concurrency in Go – Goroutines, Channels, and Pipelines 10. Concurrency in Go – Advanced Topics 11. Code Testing, Optimization, and Profiling 12. The Foundations of Network Programming in Go 13. Network Programming – Building Your Own Servers and Clients 14. Machine Learning in Go 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

This chapter discussed many interesting Go topics, including theoretical and practical information about the Go garbage collector; how to call C code from your Go programs; the handy and sometimes tricky defer keyword; the panic() and recover() functions; the strace(1), dtrace(1), and dtruss(1) UNIX tools; the use of the unsafe standard Go package; how to generate WebAssembly code from Go; and assembly code generated by Go. Finally, it shared information about your Go environment using the runtime package and showed how to reveal and explain the node tree of a Go program, before giving you some handy Go coding advice.

What you should remember from this chapter is that tools such as the unsafe Go package and the ability to call C code from Go are usually used on three occasions: firstly, when you want the best performance and you want to sacrifice some Go safety for it...

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Mastering Go - Second Edition
Published in: Aug 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781838559335
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