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A book about the internals of the Go programming language.

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# `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 <<cr.rey.clement@gmail.com>> ([@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/)