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Shiju Varghese, Go Recipes, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1188-5_2

2. Go Fundamentals

Shiju Varghese

(1)Chettiyadan House, Cheranalloor, India

Chapter 1 provided an overview of the Go programming language and the major components of the Go ecosystem. This chapter contains recipes dealing with the core fundamentals of Go language. Go is a simple programming language that provides the essential features for building scalable software systems. Unlike other programming languages such as C# and Java, Go provides minimal features in the language specification to keep to its design goal of being a simple, minimal language. Although it is a minimal language, Go provides the necessities in the language to build reliable and efficient software ...

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