This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Vaibhav Thukral
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
Vaibhav Thukral | Sciencx (2024-07-20T15:59:54+00:00) What is Go lang? and why would you use it?. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2024/07/20/what-is-go-lang-and-why-would-you-use-it/
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