Chapter 1
Hello, Go!
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding why Go is the wave of the future
Installing Go on your computer
Working with an integrated development environment
Writing a Go program and understanding how it works
Seeing how Go compares to other languages
Go is an open-source programming language — one of the fastest-growing programming languages around — released by Google in 2009. It’s a multipurpose programming language specifically designed to build fast, scalable applications.
Go comes from a pretty impressive team of people: Ken Thompson (designer and creator of Unix and C), Rob Pike (cocreator of UTF-8 and Unix format), and Robert Griesemer (a Google engineer). If you’re technically inclined, you may want to check out an article called “Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering” (https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article), which discusses how ...
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