- Originally created at Google.
- Influenced by C, C++, C# and Java.
- Popular with developers whom are making cloud-based services.
- Strongly typed language.
- Compiles to operating system-specific binary executables, creating very fast runtimes.
- Go has been used in Docker, Kubernetes, Fedora CoreOS.
- Simple Command-line routines.
- Web-based applications.
- Systems programming.
- Go implements many Object Oriented Programming principles.
- Encapsulation with
types and struts.
- Encapsulation means you can build entities in a language. These are wrappers for complex functionality.
structs are known as data structures.
- Polymorphism with interfaces.
- Polymorphism is the ability to deal with a type or object, as though it was another type.
- Go does not support Type Inheritance.
- Go does have interfaces. This includes contracts and can be satisfied by multiple types.