I should have known better than to expect anything good from Packt Publishing, but this book said it covered Generics and relatively recent so I went for it. I could not be more sorry. Mihalis seems like a nice enough Go programmer, just one with very poor decision making skills about what to put into a published book about Go. The generics in it are DEAD WRONG and are based on an ancient spec. It is really going to fuck up a lot of people. The other stuff in there is nice and all, there are a bunch of recipes for different things, but nothing I would ever pay money for. There are far better examples of all of those things just on GitHub that you can just read through. In fact, this whole thing has reminded me that the single best way to learn Go is not from a fucking book. READ ACTUAL CODE!! Find a great project and study the shit out of it. In fact, there’s nothing better than the standard Go library itself. It is chuck full of great patterns, idioms, and style and was created by some of the best Go veterans alive (none of whom have made any books, btw).
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