Learn Go

A gentle introduction to the Go programming language

In this guide, seeks to provide a gentle introduction to golang, a programming language known for speed, memory safety, and concurrency. Go was designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson in 2007, but has since been made an open source project with thousands of contributors around the world. Learn more about the go project at: https://github.com/golang/go

This guide will provide a brief history of the language, installing and setting up golang, and also various example usages of the various data structures that come with the language.

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Why Learn Go?

Golang was designed with the goal of...