Security is Everyone's Job
Go, also known as Golang, is an open-source, compiled, and statically typed programming language designed by Google.
It was first released in 2009 and has gained popularity for its simplicity, concurrency, performance, and scalability.
Go is often used for cloud-native development, web development, distributed network services, command-line interfaces, and development operations
Go was created by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson at Google, who were dissatisfied with the existing languages used at the company, especially C++.
Go was influenced by several other languages, such as C, Python, JavaScript, and Pascal. It also borrowed some ideas from the CSP model of concurrency and the Newsqueak language
Go was publicly announced in November 2009, and version 1.0 was released in March 2012. Since then, Go has been updated regularly, with the latest stable version being 1.17, released in August 2021
Go has a large and active community of developers and users, who contribute to its open-source development, documentation, libraries, and tools. Go also has several official and unofficial websites, blogs, podcasts, newsletters, and events
Go is widely used by many well-known companies and organizations, such as Google, Uber, Netflix, Dropbox, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub
Go is also used for many open-source projects and frameworks, such as Hugo, Caddy, Terraform, InfluxDB, and gRPC
Go is suitable for creating fast and reliable web applications, APIs, microservices, and serverless functions. Some of the popular web frameworks for Go include Gin, Echo, Fiber, and Revel
Go is also ideal for building scalable and concurrent network services, such as proxies, load balancers, routers, and distributed systems. Some of the common network libraries for Go include net/http, gRPC, Gorilla, and ZeroMQ
Go is also a great choice for developing command-line interfaces (CLIs) and utilities, such as shells, parsers, generators, and debuggers. Some of the useful CLI packages for Go include Cobra, Cli, Kingpin, and UrFave.
Go is also widely used for development operations and site reliability engineering, as it provides fast build times, easy deployment, testing, benchmarking, and profiling tools, and a rich standard library. Some of the popular DevOps tools written in Go include Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana.
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import "fmt"
func main() {
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}