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Introduction

Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software

• Created in 2007 by Ken Thompson (Co-creator of Unix), Rob Pike, Robert Griesemer

Features

• simple, strongly typed, procedural language with object-oriented features
• modern standard library
• compiles to single native binary
• garbage collected
• memory efficient
• built-in concurrency
• fast to compile
• built-in array and string types

Popular Project Written in Go

• Prometheus
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• ...

Install Go Environment

https://go.dev/

Install VS Code Extension

• install https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/go
• Ctrl + P and run Go: Install/Update Tools

Environment and Go Playground Validation

• run the hello.go file: go run hello.go
• build the hello.go binary. go build hello.go