Go Programming/Print version
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Contents
1. Introduction
Overview
Go is an open source, compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent system programming language. It was first designed and developed at Google beginning in September 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.
Go aims to provide the efficiency of a statically typed compiled language with the ease of programming of a dynamic language.
Other goals include:
- Safety: Type-safe and memory-safe.
- Intuitive concurrency by providing "goroutines" and channels to communicate between them.
- Efficient garbage collection "with low enough overhead and no significant latency".[11]
- High-speed compilation.
Installing and using Go
History
2. Getting Started
Hello World
package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Println("Hello, World!") }