Go
Go is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is statically typed and compiled. It is known for the simplicity of its syntax and the efficiency of development that it enables through the inclusion of a large standard library supplying many needs for common projects. It was designed at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and publicly announced in November 2009. It is syntactically similar to C, but also has garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. It is often referred to as Golang to avoid ambiguity and because of its former domain name, golang.org, but its proper name is Go. Wikipedia
Created Year: 2009Designed by: Robert Griesemer • Google • Rob Pike
Developed by: Q1107006 • Robert Griesemer • Google • Rob Pike • The Go Authors
Operating systems: iOS • Microsoft Windows • Solaris • macOS • FreeBSD • OpenBSD • IBM AIX • DragonFly BSD • Plan 9 • illumos • Linux • Q34225 • Android
Implemented in: Go
Named after: Marmota monax
Aliases: Go programming language
File extensions: go
Wikidata: Q37227
Influenced: Ballerina • Carbon • Crystal • Gleam • Odin Q64840933 • V • Zig
Influenced by: Active Oberon • Alef • APL • BCPL • C • Limbo • Modula • Modula-2 • Newsqueak • Oberon • Oberon-2 • occam • Pascal • Python • Smalltalk
Programming paradigms: imperative programming • procedural programming • object-oriented programming • concurrent computing • functional programming • structured programming
Language types: procedural programming language • concurrent programming language • object-based language • compiled language • imperative programming language • structured programming language • multi-paradigm programming language
Go Influence Network
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Hello World in Go
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Println("Hello World")
}
Free Go books, articles, documentation
- Build Web Application with Golang - astaxie (CC BY-SA)
- Building Web Apps with Go
- Darker Corners of Go - Rytis Bieliunas
- Effective Go
- Essential Go - Krzysztof Kowalczyk, StackOverflow Contributors (CC BY-SA)
- Essentials of Go Programming - Baiju Muthukadan (HTML) (CC BY-SA)
- Gin Web Framework
- Go 101 - @TapirLiu
- Go by Example
- Go for Javascript Developers
- Go for Python Programmers - Jason McVetta (HTML, PDF, EPUB)
- Go Handbook - Flavio Copes (HTML, PDF)
- Go Succinctly - Mark Lewin (PDF, EPUB, Kindle)
- Go Tutorial - Tutorials Point (HTML, PDF)
- Go Web Development Succinctly - Mark Lewin (PDF, EPUB, Kindle)
- Golang by Example
- Golang tutorial series - Naveen Ramanathan
- How To Code in Go - Mark Bates, Cory Lanou, Timothy J. Raymond (PDF, EPUB)
- Learn Go in Y minutes
- Learn Go with Tests - Chris James
- Learning Go (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Let's learn Go! (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Practical Cryptography With Go - Kyle Isom (HTML)
- Practical Go Lessons - Maximilien Andile
- Practical Go: Real world advice for writing maintainable Go programs - Dave Cheney (HTML)
- Production Go - Herman Schaaf and Shawn Smith (HTML, EPUB, PDF) ( :construction: in process)
- Spaceship Go - A Journey to the Standard Library - Blas Rodriguez Irizar
- The Go Tutorial
- The Little Go Book - Karl Seguin (PDF, ePUB) (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Web apps in Go, the anti textbook (CC BY-SA)
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