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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 introduced you to TCP/IP, and we talked about developing TCP and UDP servers and clients in Go and about creating RPC clients and servers.

At this point, there is no next chapter because this is the last chapter of this book! Congratulations for reading the whole book! You are now ready to start developing useful Unix command-line utilities in Go; so, go ahead and start programming your own tools immediately!