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=Overview=
=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.
Go is a general-purpose language designed for systems programming. It is strongly typed [[Go Concepts#Overview|... (for more details go to Go Concepts)]].


=Reasons to Use Go=
=Reasons to Use Go=

Revision as of 19:54, 16 March 2016

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Overview

Go is a general-purpose language designed for systems programming. It is strongly typed ... (for more details go to Go Concepts).

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

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