https://github.com/teh-cmc/go-internals

A book about the internals of the Go programming language.
https://github.com/teh-cmc/go-internals

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A book about the internals of the Go programming language.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/teh-cmc/go-internals
• Owner: teh-cmc
• License: other
• Created: 2018-02-18T13:18:52.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-04-03T15:07:06.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-16T16:06:31.033Z (9 days ago)
• Topics: book, go, golang, internals
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 126 KB
• Stars: 7,849
• Watchers: 419
• Forks: 352
• Open Issues: 11
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# `go-internals`

`go-internals` is a work-in-progress book about the internals of the Go (1.10+) programming language.

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## Table of Contents

- [Chapter I: A Primer on Go Assembly](./chapter1_assembly_primer/README.md)

- [Chapter II: Interfaces](./chapter2_interfaces/README.md)

- [Chapter III (soon!): The Garbage Collector](./chapter3_garbage_collector/README.md)

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*Click [here](https://cmc.gitbook.io/go-internals/) for the GitBook version.*

## Goals

- **Concise**: The book aims to be as concise as possible, encouraging code and diagrams over lengthy prose.

- **Community-effort**: I myself am learning as I go through the writing of this book. I *will* make mistakes along the way. Hopefully the community can help in pointing out and correcting these mistakes.

- **Beyond the theory**: The book will not just cover the theory, but the actual implementation too. Assumptions will be proven or invalidated via experiments and measurements.

- **Up-to-Date**: The book will try to keep up-to-date with new Go versions being released.

- **Experienced audience**: The Go community has created *loads* of great introductory material for newcomers. Unfortunately we're still lacking good resources when it comes to the more advanced stuff. This books hopes to help solve this issue.

## Translations

- [Chinese](https://github.com/go-internals-cn/go-internals)

## Contributing

All kinds of contributions are very much welcome.

Don't hesitate to open an issue for e.g...:

- pointing out technical or english mistakes

- suggesting improvements and/or additions to existing chapters

- suggesting external links that might be of interest

- ..and pretty much anything else you can think of, really!

## Author

Clement Rey <> ([@teh_cmc](https://twitter.com/teh_cmc))

## License

Licensed under the [BY-NC-SA Creative Commons 4.0 International Public License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)