What is Go lang? and why would you use it?

Go is an open-source programming language developed by Google.Its a relatively new programming language it was developed in 2007 and made public in 2009 and extremely popular language.

What is open-source exactly?

Open source programming la…


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Go is an open-source programming language developed by Google.Its a relatively new programming language it was developed in 2007 and made public in 2009 and extremely popular language.

What is open-source exactly?

Open source programming language are those that allow anyone to view, modify, and distribute their source code without restrictions.

They typically maintained by a community rather than a single entity, promoting collaboration and innovation.

Why extremely popular language because of it's:

  • Simplicity, clarity and scalability inspired by languages such as Python it aims to provide a clean, understandable syntax.

  • High performance and Focus on concurrency and quite similar to C or C++ running multiple task simultaneously.

  • Batteries included so lot of features built-in so you don't need to reach of third party libraries for basic tasks.

  • Statically typed language giving you extra type safety and most importantly allows you as a developer to catch many errors early during development.

Popular Use-cases

  • Networking and APIs
  • Microservices
  • CLI(Command line interface) Tools


This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Vaibhav Thukral


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