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Golang intro

Overview The Go language was designed and implemented by three very famous engineers: Ken Thompson, Robert Griesemer and Rob Pike at Google. By the way, the question will definitely be in your mind, why did they create the language? Or what was the problem they were trying to overcome which inspired them to create a new programming language, when there are already many powerful language available. The answer is efficient compilation , efficient execution , concurrency and of course ease of programming . Referring to the above mentioned things, you will again be thinking about the characteristics of Go, so first I will tell you about the syntax of Go, the language has strong/static type system so if you come from a dynamic type language like Python or JavaScript then it might be a bit unexpected for you. Well there is a sensitivity to strong/static types, system are typically associated with very verbose syntax. But as per the design decision around creating Go, the decision w