Go Fundamentals: Gopher Guides

2. Go Language Basics

In this chapter, we begin by understanding the basics of the Go language. We cover topics such as variable declaration, the type system, built-in data types, and the basic control flow constructs of the language.

While some of this material might be familiar to you already, we strongly recommend you read through all of the material carefully. Properly understanding these basics is necessary to getting the most out of this book.

Go Language Overview

Go is a statically typed,¹ garbage collected,² compiled³ language that is capable of producing highly concurrent, thread-safe programs that will scale as needed. Go binaries are statically linked and self-contained. This means they don’t need any runtime or development libraries ...