Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It’s a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
Go is an open-source “simple, scalable systems” language and supported by Google.
Go is widely used in the industry.
Users appreciate features like:
- Simplicity and flexibility
- Native concurrency handling
- Garbage collection
- Safety
- Speed
- Admittedly cute mascot
- Robust standard library
Go is used for a variety of software development purposes.
- Cloud and Network Services (robust SDKs for cloud platforms)
- Command-line Interfaces
- Web Dev (Strong memory performance, IDE support)
- DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering
- Fast built times
- lean syntax
- automatic formatter + doc generator