An Overview of the Go Programming Language
Go is a general purpose programming language primarily intended for systems programming. It was originally created at Google, and its development is community-driven at this point. Go is often referred to as Golang.
Go is statically typed, compiled, and garbage collected. Go is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency ("goroutines" and channels).
Go was designed to be a fast language, both in terms of build and runtime performance. Go has one of the simplest grammar among the most widely used modern programming languages.
Go Main Features
- Go is a statically typed, compiled, and imperative programming language.
- As of Go 1.18, Go now supports generics (parametrized types).
- Go programs are organized into packages.
- Go supports structural typing via structs and methods.
- Go natively supports concurrency via goroutines and channels.
- Go runtime includes fast garbage collection.
Hello World in Golang
package main
import (
"fmt"
)
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello World!")
}
More on Hello World in Go
If you are interested in finding out more about the Go programming language, then here's an explanation of the Hello World program in Go in a little more detail:
- Hello World (Go): Go Hello World - A quick explanation
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