An Introduction To Go

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard of Go - a lightweight, simple, type safe, C-like language. I love Go. It’s not the perfect language (far from it), but it fills its niche very well, and makes writing nice, easy to read code a breeze. If you’d like to share in my love of the language, and perhaps see what the fuss is all about then come along to this brief introduction to Go. We’ll look at the language fundamentals, what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and where it fits in among the myriad of languages available to you.