brew install go --cross-compile-common

• language built by Google
  
• Ken Thompson
  
• one of the original UNIX developers
• Rob Pike
• one of the original UTF-8 authors
• ironically hard to google
  
• aka "golang"
• released 1.0 on March 28th, 2012
  
• current version 1.1.2 on August 13th, 2013

• statically-typed, cross-platform, compiled language
  
• like C without the bullshit
• feels like a scripting language but w/ type safety
• interesting concurrency model
  
• goroutines
• channels
• deferred functions
• Not quite OO or FP
• no class inheritance, but can mixing interfaces
• first-class functions

• Google
  
• powers dl.google.com service
• Bitly
• http://bitly.github.io/nsq/
  
• Heroku
  
• https://github.com/heroku/hk
• https://github.com/ddollar/forego
• more and more ops tooling
• Packer (http://packer.io)
• Docker (http://docker.io)

 go run first.go

demo/greeter-bin.go

package main

import (    "fmt"    "libgreeter")
func main() {    fmt.Println(libgreeter.Greet())}

demo/libgreeter/libgreeter_test.go

package libgreeter
import "testing"

func TestMessage(t *testing.T) {
    expected := "Greetings"    actual := Greet()    if actual != expected {        t.Errorf("Expected %v, got %v", expected, actual)    }}

PASS
ok  	_/demo/libgreeter	0.022s 

• http://tour.golang.org/
  
• http://golang.org/doc/code.html
  
• http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
  
• http://www.golang-book.com/
  

• http://blog.golang.org/index
  
• http://openmymind.net/#go
  
• http://www.metacasts.tv/casts/intro-to-go
  
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCsL89YtqCs