Go

Go is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is statically typed and compiled. Originally designed in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, Go was publicly announced in November 2009, and is developed by Google and community contributors. Go has a simple syntax similar to C++, as well as garbage collection, structural typing, CSP-style concurrency, and a broad standard library. Wikipedia

Created Year: 2009
Designed by: Google • The Go Authors • Ken Thompson
Developed by: Rob Pike • Google • The Go Authors • Ken Thompson • Robert Griesemer
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows • Q94 • Plan 9 • illumos • Q48493 • DragonFly BSD • Q34225 • IBM AIX • Q388 • Solaris • macOS • FreeBSD • OpenBSD
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: functional programming • structured programming • object-oriented programming • procedural programming • concurrent computing • imperative programming

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