praise for the first edition

A concise and comprehensive guide to exploring, learning, and using Go. —Steven Francia, Creator of Hugo

This authoritative book is a one-stop shop for anyone just starting out with Go. —Sam Zaydel, RackTop Systems

Brilliantly written comprehensive introduction to Go. Highly recommended. —Adam McKay, SUEZ

This book makes the uncommon parts of Go understandable and digestible. —Alex Vidal, Atlassian

Practical and in-depth introduction to Go. —Thomas O’Rourke, Upstream Innovations Ltd.

Coming from a Java Enterprise world to the Go land has been a fun adventure mostly because of this book. It delivered pretty quickly everything I needed to start pushing beautiful code to production. —Paulo Pires, littleBits Inc.

A great book, whether as a reference for an experienced Gopher, or a Baby Gopher, with a lot of explanation that will make you understand the how and why of writing Go code. —Benoît Benedetti, University of Nice

One of the best ways right now to get Go-ing. —Jeffrey ‘jf’ Lim, Wander