Go (Programming Language)

Name: Go (Programming Language)
Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)

159 likes

Open-source programming language by Google, offering C-style syntax and automatic memory management. Features built-in concurrency and vast libraries, ideal for cloud services, web, and CLI development, supporting DevOps with fast builds and an expansive ecosystem.

Cost / License

Free
Open Source (BSD-3-Clause)

Application type

Programming Language

Origin

United States

Platforms

Mac
Windows
Linux
BSD
Self-Hosted
Go (Programming Language)

Alternatives

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Properties

Lightweight

Features

Compiled Language
Object-oriented Language
Test case management
Readability
Performance Monitoring
Class inheritance
Support for scripting
Command line interface
Static typing
Typesafe
Garbage Collection
Statically Typed Language
Dynamic typing

Comments and Reviews

Top Positive Comment

TypicalHog

★★★★★

Sep 21, 2023

Go is a really good language, but it uses a GC which can cause issues (lag spikes, stutters) for certain types of applications and that's a deal breaker for me and one of the many reasons I prefer Rust.

Zazucki

★★★★★

Mar 2, 2022

It feels like Python grew up. High hopes for the future, still too "new" to be considered one of the greats.

Guest

★★★★★

Feb 4, 2022

It is a language that bridges the gap between performance and productivity. The built-in garbage collector means one less thing to worry about. Recent updates also bring simpler modularization and generics.

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Vishal HirawatHirawatTech

★★★★★

Sep 25, 2020

HirawatTech

Faster than other scripting languages like Python.

tameresa

★★★★★

Jun 13, 2020

great programming language

Vitaly Zdanevich

★★★★★

Sep 1, 2019

Fast, stable, open-source, simple, robust, easy to write parallel code, Ubuntu desktop contains Go compiler out of the box, AWS has SDK for Go (and other companies also), compiles to single binary (in order to run do not requare neither virtual machine like Java or Python - operating system only), cross-compilation (to another OS).

Nils Franzen

★★★★★

Feb 27, 2019

-1

I like it due to its simplicity and yet powerful abstractions to create backend services.

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Install from the command line

winget install -e --id GoLang.Go
brew install go

Be careful what you paste into a terminal. Check what a command installs before running it.

What is Go (Programming Language)?

Go — also called golang — is a programming language initially developed at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is a statically-typed language with syntax loosely derived from that of C, adding automatic memory management, type safety, some dynamic-typing capabilities, additional built-in types such as variable-length arrays and key-value maps, and a large standard library.

Highlights:

An open-source programming language supported by Google
Easy to learn and great for teams
Built-in concurrency and a robust standard library
Large ecosystem of partners, communities, and tools

What’s possible with Go? Use Go for a variety of software development purposes:

Cloud & Network Services: With a strong ecosystem of tools and APIs on major cloud providers, it is easier than ever to build services with Go.
Command-line Interfaces: With popular open source packages and a robust standard library, use Go to create fast and elegant CLIs.
Web Development: With enhanced memory performance and support for several IDEs, Go powers fast and scalable web applications.
DevOps & Site Reliability: With fast build times, lean syntax, an automatic formatter and doc generator, Go is built to support both DevOps and SRE.

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