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Mastering Go – Third Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Go – Third Edition Harness the power of Go to build professional utilities and concurrent servers and services

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079310
Length 682 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Quick Introduction to Go 2. Basic Go Data Types FREE CHAPTER 3. Composite Data Types 4. Reflection and Interfaces 5. Go Packages and Functions 6. Telling a UNIX System What to Do 7. Go Concurrency 8. Building Web Services 9. Working with TCP/IP and WebSocket 10. Working with REST APIs 11. Code Testing and Profiling 12. Working with gRPC 13. Go Generics 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index
Appendix A – Go Garbage Collector

Go Generics

This chapter is about generics and how to use the new syntax to write generic functions and define generic data types. Currently, generics are under development, but the official release is pretty close and we have a good idea of what features generics are going to have and how generics are going to work.

The new generics syntax is coming to Go 1.18, which, according to the Go development cycle, is going to be officially released in February 2022.

Let me make something clear from the beginning: you do not have to use Go generics if you do not want to and you can still write wonderful, efficient, maintainable, and correct software in Go! Additionally, the fact that you can use generics and support lots of data types, if not all available data types, does not mean that you should do that. Always support the required data types, no more, no less, but do not forget to keep an eye on the future of your data and the possibility of supporting data types that...

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