Go (Programming language)

Go (often referred to as golang) is an open source programming language created at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is a compiled, statically typed language in the tradition of Algol and C, with garbage collection, limited structural typing, memory safety features and CSP-style concurrent programming features added.

The main features of Golang are:

• Go’s syntax: code concise and readable based on C syntax.
• Easy concurrency support.
• Suitable for parallel programming.

Basic tools of Golang:

• go build, which builds Go binaries using only information in the source files themselves, no separate makefiles
• go test, for unit testing and microbenchmarks
• go fmt, for formatting code
• go get, for retrieving and installing remote packages
• go vet, a static analyzer looking for potential errors in code
• go run, a shortcut for building and executing code
• godoc, for displaying documentation or serving it via HTTP
• gorename, for renaming variables, functions, and so on in a type-safe way
• go generate, a standard way to invoke code generators

See also

Python, Julia, SAS, Matlab, R, Java, C, Fortran, Sage

Material

• http://www.golang-book.com/
• https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1
• https://eng.uber.com/go-geofence/
• https://blog.golang.org/go-slices-usage-and-internals
• https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

Books

• Doxsey, Caleb. (2012) An Introduction to Programming in Go. Creative Commons 3.0
• Doxsey, Caleb. (2016) Introducing Go: Build Reliable, Scalable Programs. O’Reilly Media
• Summerfield, Mark (2012) Programming in Go: Creating Applications for the 21st Century. Addison-Wesley Professional