Then which book would you recommend? Which is up to date. On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 9:41 PM Rob Muhlestein <r...@rwx.gg> wrote:
> 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/35da213c-0ff6-4677-b800-f4aa79ea0130n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Regards, Tej Singh Rana -- 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/CADBoQTrdexC0Dd2J5W2%2B1Us2ETFdP56mFqyUnDmmTwKL4d3LxQ%40mail.gmail.com.
