Cloud Native Go: Building Web Applications and Microservices for the Cloud with Go and React

3. Go Primer

“I like a lot of the design decisions they made in the [Go] language. Basically, I like all of them.”

Martin Odersky, creator of Scala

This chapter provides a primer on a select subset of Go language topics. We will be covering the aspects of Go that we will use most frequently throughout this book, including:

A “hello world” sample.

Introduction to functions.

Manipulating and storing data with structs.

Using methods on structs.