I suspect the biggest annoyance for people new to Go using the gopl book will be the changes to the ecosystem (modules, go get changes, etc.) You can learn a l

I suspect the biggest annoyance for people new to Go using the gopl book will be the changes to the ecosystem (modules, go get changes, etc.) You can learn a language without learning about $new_feature_x perfectly fine; this is something you can just pick up later. But if you run in to trouble with the first chapter because the commands no longer work then that kind of sucks.