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Go Language

Go Language

September 2016

Giacomo Tartari PhD student, University of Troms?



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Go Language

Go



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Why?

Go Language

Rob Pike's take (one of the Go instigator) ()



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Brie y

Go Language

Languages used at Google at the time (mostly Java, C++, and Python) were not satisfactory

slow builds uncontrolled dependencies each programmer using a di erent subset of the language poor program understanding (code hard to read, poorly documented, and so on) duplication of e ort di culty of writing automatic tools cross-language builds



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Engineering not Research

Go Language

C-like syntax, simple and fast to learn

Compiled and type safe (static and strong typed)

Concurrent (CSP-like)

Garbage collected

Composition and not inheritance

Batteries included, rich std lib



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