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Go aka Golang

Why Go - From book Go for Dummies

Static typing
C runtime efficiency
Ease of readability
Good for microservice apps including:
- CLI applications
- Network systems

Hello World

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
  fmt.Println("Hello")
  // type inferred as int
  var num1 = 5
  // Explicit type default set as 0
  var num5 int
}

Go CLI commands

go build main.go
# Run hello world program
./main

# Check go environment
go env
## Change GOOS and GOARCH for different
## operating system builds

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