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Go Systems Programming

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Go Systems Programming

Overview of this book

Go is the new systems programming language for Linux and Unix systems. It is also the language in which some of the most prominent cloud-level systems have been written, such as Docker. Where C programmers used to rule, Go programmers are in demand to write highly optimized systems programming code. Created by some of the original designers of C and Unix, Go expands the systems programmers toolkit and adds a mature, clear programming language. Traditional system applications become easier to write since pointers are not relevant and garbage collection has taken away the most problematic area for low-level systems code: memory management. This book opens up the world of high-performance Unix system applications to the beginning Go programmer. It does not get stuck on single systems or even system types, but tries to expand the original teachings from Unix system level programming to all types of servers, the cloud, and the web.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we talked about creating and synchronizing goroutines as well as about creating and using pipelines and channels to allow goroutines to communicate with each other. Additionally, we developed two versions of the wc(1) utility that use goroutines to process their input files.

Make sure that you fully understand the concepts of this chapter before continuing with the next chapter because in the next chapter, we will talk about more advanced features related to goroutines and channels including shared memory, buffered channels, the select keyword, the GOMAXPROCS environment variable, and signal channels.