Go

External

• https://golang.org
• http://www.infoq.com/presentations/go-iron-production
• http://tour.golang.org/welcome/1
• Language specification https://golang.org/ref/spec

Overview

(from the language specification document): Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming in mind. It is strongly typed and garbage-collected and has explicit support for concurrent programming. Programs are constructed from packages, whose properties allow efficient management of dependencies. The existing implementations use a traditional compile/link model to generate executable binaries.

Reasons to Use Go

• concurrency is a fundamental part of the language
• standard library has almost everything one needs
• terse
• compiled
• it compiles fast
• it runs fast
• google is behind it

Subjects

• Concepts
• Installation
• Commands
• IntelliJ Go Support