Security with Go

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Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

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Conventions used

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Introduction to Security with Go

About Go

Go language design

The History of Go

Adoption and community

Common criticisms about Go

The Go toolchain

Go mascot

Learning Go

Why use Go?

Why use Go for security?

Why not use Python?

Why not use Java?

Why not use C++?

Development environment

Installing Go on other platforms

Other Linux distributions

Windows

Mac

Setting up Go

Creating your workspace

Setting up environment variables

Editors

Creating your first package

Writing your first program

Running the executable file

Building the executable file

Installing the executable file

Formatting with go fmt

Running Go examples

Building a single Go file

Running a single Go file

Building multiple Go files

Building a folder (package)

Installing a program for use

Summary

The Go Programming Language

Go language specification

The Go playground

A tour of Go

Keywords

Notes about source code

Comments

Types

Boolean

Numeric

Generic numbers

Specific numbers

Unsigned integers

Signed integers

Floating point numbers

Other numeric types

String

Array

Slice

Struct

Pointer

Function

Interface

Map

Channel

Control structures

if

for

range

switch case fallthrough and default

goto

Defer

Packages

Classes

Inheritance

Polymorphism

Constructors

Methods

Operator overloading

Goroutines

Getting help and documentation

Online Go documentation

Offline Go documentation

Summary

Working with Files

File basics

Creating an empty file