Overview
Originating as an experiment by Google engineers in 2007, Go (Golang) was officially announced in November 2009 as a free, open source, and general purpose programming language to make programmers more productive. Go is a compiled language, meaning the high-level source (src) code written by programmers is translated to a lower-level language, sometimes referred to as binary (bin) or machine code.
The brilliant minds behind Go’s creation
- Ken Thompson (B, C, Unix, UTF-8)
- Rob Pike (Plan 9, Unix, UTF-8)
- Robert Griesemer (Google’s V8 JS Engine, Sawzall, Java HotSpot VM, Strongtalk)
Go’s key points
- Compact yet expressive
- Statically typed
- Garbage-collected
- Object- but not type-oriented
- Strong concurrency support
- Efficiently implemented
- Builds fast at scale
- Comes with a powerful standard library
- Documentation
So, why should you learn Golang? In my view, it is built with the future of programming in mind, not to mention it is backed by Google! But most of all, because it is a blazing fast, fun, and productive open-source programming language!
About this Site
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