Go is an open source procedural programming language designed at Google in 2007 and launched in 2009. Go is easy to read and allows multiple processes to run simultaneously. Its flexibility gives it a range of uses, notably in Big Data, machine learning, containers and virtualization. A number of well known applications are programmed in Go.
It is a statically typed and compiled language that is syntactically similar to C, but has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency, making it good for multi-core uses. Programs are assembled by using packages for effective management of dependencies. Like dynamic languages, Go supports environment-adopting patterns. The programming language is sometimes referred to as Golang because of its domain name golang.org, but the correct name is Go.
Go is not as object-oriented as other languages, as it doesn’t provide the class keyword and has no support on inheritance. It does, however, provide structs as a replacement for classes. Its compilation time is fast and provides a lot of control over memory allocation. It reduces latency in the most recent versions of the garbage collector. Go has a powerful standard library and is a sturdy language for general-purpose programming.