Thank you, Kapil! I'm really glad you liked the book 😊

Sometimes people think exercises are optional, but they're actually essential for really learning concurrency.

Yep! As for the test assertions, I really doubt they'll ever make it into the standard library. There's a lot of opposition at Google: go.dev/doc/faq#test...

Yes, that's how things are right now. We just need to stay calm and wait for things to settle down and for better practices to become more common.

In Go, you can only use the new built-in with types: new(T).

Starting with Go 1.26, you can also use it with expressions: new(expr).

new(expr) allocates a variable of type T, initializes it to the value of expr, and returns its address, a value of type *T.

antonz.org/accepted/new...

Nope.

Thanks James, glad you like it!