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Getting Going with Go

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Also noteworthy:

   This article is adapted from the author's recent book, Programming in Go.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0321774639/?tag=drdos-20 (keeping DrDobbs' affiliate link)

I actually have that book in my backpack right now. It's very informative, but also very dense.

Did you find it a decent supplement to Golang's own "Effective Go" and "Go Tour"? Does it provide much that Golang's own documentation lacks (besides intro to programming stuff)?

I haven't finished it yet...as I said, it's quite dense.

From what I gather so far, it starts out at the "Go Tour" level and works its way up to the "Effective Go" level. Besides the package references, I don't think golang.org really has any tutorials at a level in between those documents.

I am also getting going with Go. I'm writing a multi-threaded (i.e. multi-goroutine) genetic algorithm to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem. Since Go is meant for severs, its a webapp that renders the output in HTML5 Canvas. Just getting started, so the code is badly organized, but it works: https://github.com/YesSql/GolangTspGa

Go is really fun to work with, although the compiler messages are still a bit cryptic. Also its intolerance of things that are normally warnings (like unused variables) is really aggressive, which is kind of painful while you are learning, but I suppose will lead to cleaner code in the future.

Go, is to my mind, the most exciting new programming language by far. I am looking forward to seeing how it progresses in the next few months.

Now if only they had called it GoLang....

It's mind boggling that a programming language from Google would be given a completely unsearchable moniker.

Actually just always using "golang" works extremely well.

Unfortunately this probably hurts the "brand", I think, because I find myself calling it "golang" sometimes even when I'm talking about it aloud to someone else.

I suspect they intentionally dual-branded it, officially calling it "Go" but hosting it at golang.org, giving the contrast to Erlang's name. They might want the option to trademark it in the future, so couldn't use "Go", just as Coca Cola couldn't trademark "Coke" because it was a common word.

It's weird. The first page lists an Aug 3, 2005 date when I view it.

That would be quite a trick since it was 2 years before the project was even started.

The other pages have what I assume is the correct date.

Shows Aug 7, 2012 for me. Maybe it was fixed?

First page for me still shows a 2005 date. doesn't matter, it's just weird.

http://imgur.com/Iwu0d

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