An introduction to the Go programming language

According to Wikipedia, Go is an open source programming language created at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. Though the development of Go began in 2007, it was publicly released in November 2009.

Go is basically a general-purpose programming language with advanced features and a clean syntax (a C-like syntax with no semicolons). Because of its wide availability on a variety of platforms, its well-documented library, and its focus on good software engineering principles, Go is an ideal language to learn. It is unlike Java or Ruby. Its creators were not trying to make it a language theorist’s dream. Go is not about type hierarchies. It is not about object-oriented programming or functional programming.