Go (programming language)

Go
ParadigmMulti-paradigm: concurrent imperative, object-oriented[1][2]
Designed byRobert Griesemer
Rob Pike
Ken Thompson
DeveloperThe Go Authors[3]
First appearedNovember 10, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-11-10)
Stable release1.24.1[4] Edit this on Wikidata / 4 March 2025; 5 days ago (4 March 2025)
Typing disciplineInferred, static, strong, structural,[5][6] nominal
Implementation languageGo, Assembly language (gc); C++ (gofrontend)
OSmany
License3-clause BSD[3] + patent grant[7]
Filename extensions.go
Websitego.dev
Major implementations
gc, gofrontend
Influenced by
C, Oberon-2, Limbo, Active Oberon, communicating sequential processes, Pascal, Oberon, Smalltalk, Newsqueak, Modula-2, Alef, APL, BCPL, Modula, occam, Erlang,
Influenced
Odin, Crystal, Zig, V (Vlang)

Go, also known as Golang, is a statically-typed concurrent programming language made by an engineer team at Google.[8][9]

Example

Here is a hello world program in Go. 

package main
// Import fmt library through the standard library.
import "fmt"

// Define entry point.
func main() {
    // Write to output.
    fmt.println("Hello world!")
}

References

  1. ↑ "Is Go an object-oriented language?". Retrieved April 13, 2019. Although Go has types and methods and allows an object-oriented style of programming, there is no type hierarchy.
  2. ↑ "Go: code that grows with grace". Retrieved June 24, 2018. Go is Object Oriented, but not in the usual way.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Text file LICENSE". The Go Programming Language. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
  5. ↑ "Why doesn't Go have "implements" declarations?". golang.org. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ Pike, Rob (December 22, 2014). "Rob Pike on Twitter". Retrieved March 13, 2016. Go has structural typing, not duck typing. Full interface satisfaction is checked and required.
  7. ↑ "Additional IP Rights Grant". The Go Programming Language. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
  8. ↑ "The Go Programming Language". golang.org. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  9. ↑ "Golang: the simple programming language from Google". IONOS Digitalguide. Retrieved 2021-04-13.