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The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive.

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction.

Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It’s a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

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What is GO?

Go, also known as Golang, is an open-source programming language developed by Google. It was created by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson and was publicly announced in 2009. Go was designed with the intention of improving productivity in software development, especially in network systems and concurrent applications.

The main feature of Go is its efficient concurrency model. This includes the use of goroutines and channels, which make it easy and effective to write concurrent and parallel programs.

Go uses an programming approach that can be described as Structured and Component-Oriented Programming, with OOP elements but without the traditional OOP features such as inheritance and classes.

Go is used mainly for Microservices and Web APIs due to its efficiency and concurrency capabilities, but also for Development of Systems and Infrastructure tools (such as Docker, and Kubernetes), Develop Network Tools and Servers (proxies, load balancers, etc.), and Real Time Data Processing only to mention a few of it uses.

Until now (July, 11, 2024) the Go’s current version is 1.22.5.

Go Topics

Latest Go learning

  • GO and the OOP
    Go and OOP Go is not designed as a purely object-oriented programming (OOP) language in the traditional sense, like Java. However, Go includes certain features that allow for the use of OOP principles, but in a simplified and more flexible manner.
  • Download and Installation Go
    So, if you are is because you want to learn GO, and is possible that you comes from a Java platform, if not I recommend you to learn java.
  • GO Playground
    If you want to try GO, you can do it using the GO Playground, you don’t need to install anything, you only need to browser and the URL https://go.dev/play