Golang Programming Language

What is Go ?

Go is a programming language developed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson in 2007
Go is expressive, concise, clean and efficient.
Go is a fast, statically typed, compiled language.

Golang is a Compiled Language : Go programs must be compiled before execution.
Go is Strongly typed language : In go language there is no implicit type conversion of variables.
Go is Statically typed language : In go language all variable has to be declared before use.
Go is Multi purpose language : Go language is used for variety of software development purposes like
- Cloud & Network Services
- Command-line Interfaces
- Web Development
- DevOps & Site Reliability
Go is a Functional programming language : Go does not support classes and objects.
Go has automatic garbage collection : Go language takes cares of memory management using automatic garbage collector.

Basic understanding of computer programming terminologies. C language proficiency is helpful as Go language syntax is similar to C.

Go	Python	Java	C++
Compiled	Interpreted	Compiled & Interpreted	Compiled
Statically typed	Dynamically typed	Statically typed	Statically typed
Fast run time	Slow run time	Slow run time	Fast run time
Fast compile time	Slow compile time	Fast compile time	Slow compile time
Has automatic garbage collection	Has automatic garbage collection	Has automatic garbage collection	Does not support automatic garbage collection
Does not support classes and objects	Has classes and objects	Has classes and objects	Has classes and objects
Does not support inheritance	Supports inheritance	Supports inheritance	Supports inheritance
Does not support generics	Supports generics	Supports generics	Supports generics
Supports concurrency through goroutines and channel	No built-in concurrency mechanism	Supports concurrency through threads	Supports concurrency through threads

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