Beginning HCL Programming: Using Hashicorp Language for Automation and Configuration

© Pierluigi Riti and David Flynn 2021

P. Riti, D. FlynnBeginning HCL Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6634-2_3

3. Introduction to Go

Pierluigi Riti¹   and David Flynn²

(1)

Mullingar, Ireland

(2)

New Orleans, LA, USA

 

Go is a general-purpose open-source language. Officially launched at the end of 2009, Go was initially an internal Google Project which took its inspiration from other languages like C, Pascal, and Alef. The central objective of Go was to create a language for the professional user who wants to create robust software seamlessly.

Go has steadily grown in popularity, becoming the fifth most used language for the IEEE and seventh for GitHub. Go has very rich libraries which allow you to easily build complex software on the Web with ...