Comprehensive introduction to Go covering language fundamentals, concurrency, and tooling for building reliable software.

Even with Go 1.23 on the horizon, Donovan and Kernighan’s book remains the best on-ramp to the language. The chapters walk you through Go’s syntax, standard library, and testing culture with the authors’ trademark clarity, and the concurrency section—goroutines, channels, pipelines—translates directly into the patterns we use at work. I hand the book to new engineers, then pair it with Effective Go and Go Proverbs to reinforce idioms. Some tooling references predate modules, but the core language hasn’t changed, and the exercises still sharpen your Go muscle memory. If you write Go professionally or want to move beyond tutorials, this is essential reading.

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