About the reviewer

Ivo Balbaert is a former lecturer in (web) programming and databases at CVO Antwerpen, a community college in Belgium. He received a Ph.D. in applied physics from the University of Antwerp in 1986. He worked in the software industry for 20 years, as a developer and consultant in several companies, and for 10 years as a project manager at Antwerp University Hospital. From 2000 onward, he switched to part-time teaching, developing software, and writing technical books.

In 2012, he authored The Way To Go, a book on the Go programming language. He also wrote a number of introductory books on new programming languages, including Dart, Crystal, Julia, Rust, and Red, most of them published by Packt.