¿¡WHY!?

FAST LANGUAGES

but they are miserable to program with

SLOW LANGUAGES

but they're beautiful and easy to use

SO WHERE DOES GO COME IN?

SOME SMART

DUDES MADE IT

UNIX
B Programming Language
UTF-8
Plan9
Inferno
Limbo

and some other stuff...

yeah but what is it?

go is compiled

go is small

go is for writing quick software fast

go is targeted at multicore programming

but you don't *need* to worry about multiple cores

OKAY COOL

IT HAS

~ a nice package manager (with http://godoc.org/)

~ docs that are pretty decent (> godoc 'package')

~ garbage collection (eat your heart out C folks)

~ concurrency built-in

~ structs/interfaces instead of classes

~ a lack of flow-based exceptions (but should compiled things except?)

~ a "dynamic feel" (kill me now)

BUT I WANT CLASSES


package main

import (
      "fmt"
      "net/http"
)

type Bikeshed struct{}

func (b Bikeshed) ServeHTTP(
      w http.ResponseWriter,
      r *http.Request) {
      fmt.Fprint(w,
                 "the bikeshed should clearly be "+
                 r.FormValue("color"))
}

func main() {
      var b Bikeshed
      http.ListenAndServe("localhost:4000", b)
}

GO HERE:

http://tour.golang.org/

GO LANG

By cashscam

GO LANG

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