Go Introduction

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What is Go?

Go is a cross-platform, open source programming language

Go can be used to create high-performance applications

Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language

Go was developed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson in 2007

Go's syntax is similar to C++

Web development (server-side)

Developing network-based programs

Developing cross-platform enterprise applications

Cloud-native development

Go is fun and easy to learn

Go has fast run time and compilation time

Go supports concurrency

Go has memory management

Go works on different platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, etc.)

Go	Python	C++
Statically typed	Dynamically typed	Statically typed
Fast run time	Slow run time	Fast run time
Compiled	Interpreted	Compiled
Fast compile time	Interpreted	Slow compile time
Supports concurrency through goroutines and channel	No built-in concurrency mechanism	Supports concurrency through threads
Has automatic garbage collection	Has automatic garbage collection	Does not have automatic garbage collection
Does not support classes and objects	Has classes and objects	Has classes and objects
Does not support inheritance	Supports inheritance	Supports inheritance

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Compilation time refers to translating the code into an executable program
Concurrency is performing multiple things out-of-order, or at the same time, without affecting the final outcome
Statically typed means that the variable types are known at compile time

This tutorial will teach you the basics of Go.

It is not necessary to have any prior programming experience.

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