Learning Go Programming

Go in a nutshell

By design, Go has a simple syntax. Its designers wanted to create a language that is clear, concise, and consistent with few syntactic surprises. When reading Go code, keep this mantra in mind: what you see is what it is. Go shies away from a clever and terse coding style in favor of code that is clear and readable as exemplified by the following program:

// This program prints molecular information for known metalloids // including atomic number, mass, and atom count found // in 100 grams of each element using the mole unit. // See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mole_(unit) package main import "fmt" const avogadro float64 = 6.0221413e+23 const grams = 100.0 type amu float64 func (mass amu) float() float64 { return float64(mass) ...