Go Lunch & Learn

Overview

Released in 2012 by Google.

Go is an attempt to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language.

Simple to learn and concise (25 keywords only).

Built for concurrency and parallelism.

Deep dive

• Hello world
• Variables
• Functions
• Defer
• Conditions
• Loops
• Pointers
• Structures
• Arrays
• Slices
• Maps
• Methods
• Interfaces
• Errors
• Panic
• Goroutines
• Channels
• Testing & Profiling

Conclusion

Designed by Google to solve Google's problem.