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Overview of Go

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Why Go and how programs start.

Overview of Go

Go is a compiled language from Google, popular for cloud services and CLIs. Programs start in package main with func main().

  • Fast compile times and a single static binary.
  • Goroutines make concurrency approachable.
  • fmt.Println is the usual hello-world print.

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