Go Programming/Introduction
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Overview
[edit | edit source]Go is an open source, compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent system programming language.
Go aims to provide the efficiency of a statically typed compiled language with the ease of programming of a dynamic language.
Other goals include:
- Safety: Type-safe and memory-safe.
- Intuitive concurrency by providing "goroutines" and channels to communicate between them.
- Efficient garbage collection "with low enough overhead and no significant latency".
- High-speed compilation.
Go's mascot is a gopher.
Installing and using Go
[edit | edit source]Visit the Go programming download page and choose the option corresponding to your platform or operating system.
History
[edit | edit source]Go was designed at Google in 2009 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.