Go (programming language)
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| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: concurrent imperative, object-oriented[1][2] |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Robert Griesemer Rob Pike Ken Thompson |
| Developer | The Go Authors[3] |
| First appeared | November 10, 2009 |
| Stable release | 1.27.3[4]  / 20 October 2026 |
| Typing discipline | Inferred, static, strong, structural,[5][6] nominal |
| Implementation language | Go, Assembly language (gc); C++ (gofrontend) |
| OS | many |
| License | 3-clause BSD[3] + patent grant[7] |
| Filename extensions | .go |
| Website | go |
| Major implementations | |
| gc, gofrontend | |
| Influenced by | |
| C, Oberon-2, Limbo, Active Oberon, communicating sequential processes, Pascal, Oberon, Smalltalk, Newsqueak, Modula-2, Alef, APL, BCPL, Modula, occam, Erlang, | |
| Influenced | |
| Odin, Crystal, Zig, V (Vlang) | |
Go, also known as Golang, is a statically-typed concurrent programming language made by an engineer team at Google.[8][9]
Example
[change | change source]Here is a hello world program in Go.
package main
// Import fmt library through the standard library.
import "fmt"
// Define entry point.
func main() {
// Write to output.
fmt.println("Hello world!")
}
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Is Go an object-oriented language?". Retrieved April 13, 2019.
Although Go has types and methods and allows an object-oriented style of programming, there is no type hierarchy.
- ↑ "Go: code that grows with grace". Retrieved June 24, 2018.
Go is Object Oriented, but not in the usual way.
- 1 2 "Text file LICENSE". The Go Programming Language. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ "Release 1.27.3". 20 October 2026. Retrieved 20 October 2026.
- ↑ "Why doesn't Go have "implements" declarations?". golang.org. Retrieved October 1, 2015.
- ↑ Pike, Rob (December 22, 2014). "Rob Pike on Twitter". Retrieved March 13, 2016.
Go has structural typing, not duck typing. Full interface satisfaction is checked and required.
- ↑ "Additional IP Rights Grant". The Go Programming Language. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ "The Go Programming Language". golang.org. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
- ↑ "Golang: the simple programming language from Google". IONOS Digitalguide. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
