Go – programming language

Go is an open source programming environment that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. It is a statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. It aims to be modern, with support for networked and multicore computing. It is also intended to be fast.

Go includes a language specification, standard libraries, and custom tools, and provides a stable foundation for creating reliable products, projects, and publications.

The syntax of Go is broadly similar to that of C with significant input from the Pascal/Modula/Oberon family (declarations, packages).

Features include:

• Dynamic features which make prototyping much easier.
• Intuitive Concurrency – provides goroutines, small lightweight threads.
• Efficient garbage collection.
• Less Typing – there are no forward declarations and no header files; everything is declared exactly once. Syntax is clean and light on keywords.
• Dynamically Typed Features via interfaces.
• Light Syntax.
• Fast Compilation.
• Exception handling via panic/recover mechanism.

Website: go.dev
Support: Blog
Developer: Google, Inc.
License: BSD-style license

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