What is Golang and how to install it
Golang, also known as “Go” is a procedural programming language. It is is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google.
It was developed in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.
This programming language was open-sourced and launched publicly in 2009. Golang is similar to C but comes with some additional features like memory safety, garbage collection and structural typing. It also supports environment adapting patterns. The latest stable version for this language was released on October 31, 2019. It is supported on multiple operating systems like DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Solaris, Windows. It has some important characteristics which are:-
- run-time efficiency
- readability and usability
- high-performance networking and multi-processing
Go language is an effort from Google to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language. It also aims to be modern, with support for networked and multicore computing.
