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This misses two fundamental differences between Go and "traditional" OO languages. (But for "traditional" read "recent, mostly C-derived".)
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Whenever someone from Java or C++ or C# comes to Go, they look for "class", find "struct", and stop looking. #golang
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The first is that it's not only structs: Any concrete type can have methods: ints, bools, slices, even funcs: https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#HandlerFunc …
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But the more important idea is the separation of concept: data and behavior are two distinct concepts in Go, not conflated into a single notion of "class".
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That is the insight (which goes all the way back to Smalltalk) on which the OO type system, including the interface model, is built.
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Stopping at "struct == class" misses much of what makes Go work.
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I came from a C background and never "got" C++. Once I saw struct I felt at home. I call Go a "Type Oriented" language.
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If someone with very little programming background wanted to begin learning Go, which book would you recommend? i.e. is there a "K&R"-like tome for Go? Thank you.
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Yep, here's the K&D version that I've read and think is fantastic to learn Go -http://a.co/25ivnNX
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Whereas anyone coming from Perl sees methods on arbitrary types and feels right at home.
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As a C++ developer (mostly), that would actually motivate me to look further :)
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Whenever I look at Go, with my Java background, I miss a decent build system with solid package management. Dependency vendoring is just not gonna cut it. See
@rustlang. The interface system is perfectly fine, thanks for asking :-) - 1 more reply
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In my experience, modern C++ is more concerned with struct than class anyway, since style tends more towards functional programming.
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The biggest thing was how interfaces are done.
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they also find “*” and “&” ,then crazy..
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I came from C and Java, looked at Go, liked it and then came back to C and Java. :-) It's hard to beat the elegance of C.
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