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Go Concurrent Language

Simple, fast, and reliable language designed at Google for concurrent cloud services and network systems.

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Go

Concurrent LanguageEst. 2009

Authored by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson

Ring 2 Static

Simple, fast, and reliable language designed at Google for concurrent cloud services and network systems.

Paradigms

ConcurrentImperativeStructural

Typology & Memory

Concurrent Garbage-Collected System/Cloud Language

Mutable by default

Grammar & Syntax Rules

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello, Go!")
}

Representative Code Recipe

Canonical Example

package main

import "fmt"

func worker(ch chan string) {
    ch <- "Task finished!"
}

func main() {
    ch := make(chan string)
    go worker(ch)
    fmt.Println(<-ch)
}

Go Concurrent Language

Go

Paradigms

Typology & Memory

Grammar & Syntax Rules

Type System & Execution Semantics

Toolchain & Execution Ring Stack

Representative Code Recipe