As an educator and mentor I've had very negative feedback about that book from dozens, from 12 to 50 years old. I preordered 25 when it came out and regret ever having anyone start Go with it. One brilliant kid (who went on to teach himself Assembly and C) nearly threw it at me. To date, I have been unable to solidly recommend any book for beginners. This lack of *good* beginner instruction remains one of the great flaws of Go in general. I'm asked daily what to buy and have nothing to tell them. I bought "Mastering Go" recently and it contains "generics" as proposed from 2019 (I should have known since Packt published it). I know the authors are capable, good people, but these books just do not hit the mark. It is one of the *only* areas where I can confidently say Rust does a better job. Their documentation team is amazing.
On Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 6:22:47 AM UTC-5 christoph...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello Go friends, > > is there a new edition of the "Go Programming Language" book to be > published soon ? > It is quite old now and there have been a few changes to Go since then. > Go.mod and generics. I was considering buying it, but if a new edition > comes out in a few months, it would be wasted money. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/35da213c-0ff6-4677-b800-f4aa79ea0130n%40googlegroups.com.
