Interesting Facts About Golang

Go (also known as Golang or Go language) is the language developed by Google. Go is an open-source, statically-typed compiled, and explicit programming language. According to Google Developers, Go is a dependable and efficient programming language. Go supports Concurrent programming. Go is also a multi-paradigm and object-oriented language. Go was inspired by Python and C languages. It is productive and simple as Python with the abilities of C. 

Major Versions of Golang	Initial Release Date
1–1.0.3	2012-03-28
1.1–1.1.2	2013-05-13
1.2–1.2.2	2013-12-01
1.3–1.3.3	2014-06-18
1.4–1.4.3	2014-12-10
1.5–1.5.4	2015-08-19
1.6–1.6.4	2016-02-17
1.7–1.7.6	2016-08-15
1.8–1.8.7	2017-02-16
1.9–1.9.7	2017-08-24
1.10–1.10.7	2018-02-16
1.11–1.11.6	2018-08-24
1.12.1	2019-02-25
1.13.1	2019-09-03
1.14	2020-02-25

Example :

Go

package main
import "fmt"

func main() {
    fmt.Println("GO is GREAT!!!")
    fmt.Println("GfG is GREAT!!!")

}

Output :

GO is GREAT!!!
GfG is GREAT!!!

Interesting Facts About Golang:

• Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson designed Go at Google in 2007.
• Google wants an alternative to C++ and solves the issues of software engineering, this gives rise to the development of the Go programming language.
• Go is supported on almost every  Operating system like DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Solaris, and Windows. 
• Go provides 2 features that are capable of replacing Class inheritance. The first is embedding and the other is interfaces.
• Go has garbage collection which automatically performs memory management and permits deferred execution of functions.
• In Go language, we don’t need to put a comma (, ) at the end of statements like Python.
• There is a special Keyword in Go called ‘defer‘, which delays the execution of method or function until the nearby function returns.
• Go has a special built-in function known as ‘make‘, which is used to create slices, maps, and channels.
• If any variable or package is declared but not used then, the Go compiler will show an error.
• In Go, there is a new data type known as ‘slice‘, which has a more powerful interface to sequences as compared to Arrays.
• Sometimes we want to import packages only for their side effects, without exploiting their use like import _ “net/http/pprof”. For this purpose, the Go language is very useful.
• The ‘Goroutines‘ is a special function in Go, which runs concurrently with other functions or methods. 
• In order to establish communication between goroutines. There exists a pipe known as ‘Channels‘.