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: 2009
Designed by: Robert Griesemer • Google • Rob Pike
Developed by: The Go Authors • Robert Griesemer • Google • Rob Pike • Q1107006
Operating systems: Q34236 • Q48493 • Microsoft Windows • IBM AIX • Linux • macOS • Q34225 • Q94 • OpenBSD • illumos • DragonFly BSD • Solaris • Plan 9
Implemented in: Go
Named after: Marmota monax
Aliases: Go programming language
File extensions: go

Wikidata: Q37227

Influenced: Ballerina • Carbon • Crystal • Gleam • Odin • 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 • functional programming • procedural programming • structured programming • concurrent computing • object-oriented programming

Language types: compiled language • multi-paradigm programming language • imperative programming language • procedural programming language • structured programming language • concurrent programming language • object-based language

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Hello World in Go

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
  fmt.Println("Hello World")
}
Source: github.com/leachim6/hello-world

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