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Miek Gieben
Personal blog · miek.nlprogrammingsystems
Miek Gieben's personal blog at miek.nl covers programming and systems. Since 2010, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “"Learning Go" Book”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Miek Gieben's free, CC-licensed "Learning Go" ebook and its PDF versions, plus a C++ talk PDF. Commenters point to them as introductory Go resources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A personal blog
Most-linked posts?
- "Learning Go" Book3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-05-04
- /files/go/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-09
- /projects/learninggo/index.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-09-04
What Hacker News says?
See also another nice book, which can be downloaded as PDF: http://www.miek.nl/projects/learninggo/index.html
Comment linking /projects/learninggo/index.html
on “Free Book: An Introduction to Programming in Go”Submitted "Learning Go" Book as a story · 106 points
HN discussion> No books. Nothing. No books? Go in Action; Evan Shaw; Manning; http://www.manning.com/shaw/ An Introduction to Programming in Go; Caleb Doxsey; http://www.golang-book.com Network Programming with Go; Jan Newmarch; Free e-book; http://jan.newmarch.name/golang/ Programming in Go: Creating Applications for the 21st Century; Mark Summerfield; Addison-Wesley Professional; http://qtrac.eu/gobook.html The Way To Go: A Th…
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on “Why I think Rust is the "language of the future" for systems programming”Submitted The Dark Side of C++ [pdf] as a story · 22 points
HN discussionStart from the left column (Learning Go): http://golang.org/doc/docs.html and continue to the bottom. Watch "Practical Go Programming": http://osdc.blip.tv/file/4432146/ Watch "Writing Go Packages": http://www.youtube.com/gocoding#p/u/0/jDWBJOXs_iI Read language specification. Edit: If you prefer books, here's a CC-licensed, still in development, book by Miek Gieben "Learning Go": http://www.miek.nl/files/go/ (grab…
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on “Google App Engine for Go”Submitted Pam Unixsock as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThis kind of comment kinda misses the point. Haskell (IMHO) won't ever be mainstream for much the same reasons Lisp never was (or will be?): it has an incredibly high learning curve (eg [1]). This is really the problem of the "pure" functional languages. Functional programming is suited to some tasks. With others the fit is almost tortuous. Imperative programming is well-suited to how we think and how we break down…
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on “Why I’m not leaving Python for Go”Submitted Go Book; a book explaining the Go language as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI've been experimenting with it these weeks. The "Learning Go" is an interesting book: http://www.miek.nl/projects/learninggo/ Also the number of projects is increasing: http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects#Linguistics I'm looking for cool Go projects out there, so share your github stuff!
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on “Why Go?”Submitted Why 13 DNS root servers? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionMiek Gieben's [1] DNS library [2] is truly excellent. I use it at Port 6379 for an authoritative DNS server, looking up Redis instances [3]. I too have found Go surprisingly productive and enjoyable to code, and our servers seem very stable so far. [1] http://www.miek.nl/ [2] https://github.com/miekg/dns [3] https://port6379.com/blog/2012/09/03/using-dns-to-find-insta...
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on “DNS server in Go - Big NTP Pool upgrade”Submitted Pam Unixsock as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe latest version should be at the bottom of this list: http://www.miek.nl/files/go/
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on “"Learning Go" Book”Submitted Uncloud as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is another good resource http://www.miek.nl/downloads/Go/Learning-Go-latest.pdf
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on “Resources to learn Go”Submitted OSC52: My Cut and Paste Journey as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've recently decided to pick up Go myself for a little experiment I'm running. I highly recommend the free "Learning Go" ebook [1] [2]. It's barely over 100 pages (huge plus). There are some things that annoy me. 1. Reversing type and variable/parameter name is just aesthetics I guess but it still really bothers me. Perhaps there's a reason (eg parsing speed) but I'd still prefer: float32 f1 float32 f2 = 45.4 over…
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on “Having a Go - first time experience with Golang”Submitted Learning Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionRead this: http://miek.nl/downloads/2010/c++-talk.pdf?we-require-more-d... Then read the article again. C++ terrifies me.
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on “Multi-Device C++ is used everywhere on planet Earth and beyond”Submitted DNS Classes, or why you have "IN" in your BIND zones as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you're like me, and liked the style used in the book, I tracked down the blog post where he introduces it. http://www.miek.nl/s/d7c7a15ac3/
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on “Go Book; a book explaining the Go language”Prebuilt pdfs also available here - http://www.miek.nl/files/go/
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on “Go Book; a book explaining the Go language”
