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Donovan and Kernighan's "The Go Programming Language" is one of the best pieces of technical writing I've ever read. Buy it and read it cover to cover.

Then read the [Go Language Specification][1] cover to cover. It's dry but refreshingly not legalese.

[1]: https://go.dev/ref/spec

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Learning Go by Jon Bodner, particularly the newest edition, is also excellent.

An aside: are there any other Go books, particularly ones the explore more specific topics, that are recommended? I've read a few that I didn't find very impressive.

I liked Cloud Native Go by Matthew A. Titmus and Concurrency in Go by Katherine Cox-Buday.

The language spec was so good I was able to make tangible contributions to an open source project just by using that and I don’t consider myself a go programmer at all. I want to buy that book but it’s technical and I feel like there might be a second edition around the corner?

/edit I bought it after reading this thread: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/U99js3UYz-U

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