The world was first introduced to Go in 2009 thanks to Google’s Rob Pike, Robert Griesemer, and Ken Thompson. The main goal of creating Go was to combine the best features of other programming languages:
- Ease of use together with state-of-the-art productivity
- High-level efficiency along with static typing
- Advanced performance for networking and the full use of multi-core power
Go came to offer the following solutions.
• Fast-paving compilation and execution
• Do away with the need of working with different subsets of languages for one project.
• A boost to code readability and documentation
• Offering a thoroughly consistent language
• Facilitating easy versioning of the program
• Allowing developing with multiple languages
• Allowing easier maintenance of dependencies
GoLang came as a massive value addition to the programming of complex applications underlying performance-savvy hardware systems and large scalable enterprise software systems. No wonder, within a few years it received such a vast following from developers around the globe