There is a continual stream of programming languages being invented. Some are highly specialized, others are quite generic, while a third group is designed to fill broad but to some extent niche areas. Go was created in 2007 and released publically in 2009. It was intended to be a systems programming language, augmenting (or replacing) C++ and other statically compiled languages for production network and multiprocessing systems.
Go joins a group of modern languages including Rust, Swift, Julia, and several others. Go’s particular features are a simple syntax, fast compilation of ...
