Go Language Tutorials: Introduction

Go language tutorials: Introduction

Go Language Tutorials

Go is a programming language developed at Google in 2007 and launched in 2009. It is developed by Robert Griesemer, Ken Thompson, and Rob Pike. Go language has a syntax similar to C. It also provides garbage collection, dynamic-typing, type safety, and many advance built-in types. It is a statically typed language that also provides a rich standard library. It is also used by Google in their production systems. It is also called Golang because of the domain www.golang.org

There is a third-party transpiler called GopherJS which can be used for front-end web development.

Version 1.0 of the language is released in March 2012. It is also used by many different organizations and also by some open-source projects. Its readability and usability are like JavaScript and Python.

This series of blogs is designed for software programmers with a need to understand the Go language from scratch. This will give you enough understanding of a language from where you can take yourself to a high level of expertise in a language itself.

Before proceeding further, you should have a basic understanding of computer programming fundamentals. If you have previously learned a language and familiar with C programming, then it would be a little easy for you to understand the concept of the Go language.

Conclusion: So basically in this Go language tutorials I will try to cover all the topics related to the language.