Go was designed at Google in 2007 to improve programming productivity in an era of multicore, networked
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Go is influenced by C (especially the Plan 9 dialect ), but with an emphasis on greater simplicity and safety. It consists of:
• A syntax and environment adopting patterns more common in dynamic languages… See more

The Go authors put substantial effort into influencing the style of Go programs:
• Indentation, spacing, and other surface-level details of code are automatically standardized by the gofmt tool. It uses tabs for indentati… See more

The main Go distribution includes tools for building, testing, and analyzing code:
• go build, which builds Go binaries using only information in the source files themselves, no separate makefiles
• go test, for unit testi… See more

where "fmt" is the package for formatted I/O, similar to C's C file input/output.
The following simple program demonstrates Go's concurrency features to implement an asynchronous program. It launches two lightweight … See more

Go has found widespread adoption in various domains due to its robust standard library and ease of use.
Popular applications include: Caddy, a web server that automates the process of setting up … See more