Technical requirements

All the code that you will see in this chapter can be found in the directory called chapter7 in the GitHub repository (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Protocol-Buffers-Handbook).

Disclaimer

This chapter will focus on the Go implementation of an address book. This is in no way a Go tutorial, so if you are not familiar with the language and do not want to go through this, you can find a Python implementation in the next chapter. However, I would still encourage you to skim through this chapter to be able to analyze the difference between the generated Go code and the Python code. You will see that Protobuf generates idiomatic code, and some concepts have different feels in different languages.