Go Language

External

• The Go Programming Language Specification https://go.dev/ref/spec
• go.dev Documentation https://go.dev/doc/#learning

Internal

• Go
• Go Language | Modularization
• Go Language | Object Oriented Programming
• Go Language | Concurrency

Overview

Go Language Specification document defines Go as a general-purpose compiled language designed with systems programming in mind. It is statically and 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 declarations can be read "naturally" from left to right, which makes it easy to read.

These are several reasons to use Go:

• It compiles fast, and it runs fast
• Concurrency is a fundamental part of the language
• The standard library has almost everything one needs
• It is a terse language and "feels" dynamically typed, but it compiles straight into machine code

Type

To deplete Go Concepts - The Type System

Go is a strongly and statically typed language with no implicit conversions. This gives Go a stronger type safety than Java, which as implicit conversions, but the code reads more like Python, which has untyped variables.

Modularization

In Go, programs are constructed from packages. More details:

Go Modularization

Object Oriented Programming

Object Oriented Programming

TO DEPLETE and MERGE into THIS DOCUMENT

These are documents produced by the previous attempt. Process, merge into this document, and deplete:

• Go Concepts - Standard Library
• Go Concepts - Lexical Structure
• Go Concepts - Functions
• Go Concepts - Error Handling
• Go Concepts - Concurrency
• Go Concepts - Memory Model
• Go Concepts - Templates
• Go Concepts - Compiler
• Go Concepts - Limitations