go_recipes.pdf

Go, also commonly referred to as Golang, is a general-purpose programming language conceived at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. The language first appeared in November 2009 as an open source project. The Go open source project is available at https://github.com/golang/go. Version 1.0 of Go was released in March 2012, providing a stable version that includes language specification, standard libraries, and custom tools. Go borrows the basic syntax of C and has the same philosophy as C: Enable maximum capability with a minimum set of features. You can say that Go is a modern C with the productivity of a dynamically typed language, although it is a statically typed language. The Go web site (https://golang.org/) defines Go this way: “Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.