Chapter 2. Efficient Introduction to Go
Go is efficient, scalable, and productive. Some programmers find it fun to work in; others find it unimaginative, even boring. ... Those are not contradictory positions. Go was designed to address the problems faced in software development at Google, which led to a language that is not a breakthrough research language but is nonetheless an excellent tool for engineering large software projects.
Rob Pike, “Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software Engineering”
I am a huge fan of the Go programming language. The number of things developers around the world have been able to achieve with Go is impressive. For a few years in a row, Go has been on the list of top five languages people love or want to learn. It is used in many businesses, including bigger tech companies like Apple, American Express, Cloudflare, Dell, Google, Netflix, Red Hat, Twitch, and others. Of course, as with everything, nothing is perfect. I would probably change, remove, or add a few things to Go, but if you would wake me in the middle of the night and ask me to quickly write reliable backend code, I would write it in Go. CLI? In Go. Quick, reliable script? In Go as well. The first language to learn as a junior programmer? Go. Code for IoT, robots, and microprocessors? The answer is also Go.1 Infrastructure configuration? As of 2022, I don’t think there is a better tool for robust templating than Go.2
Don’t get me wrong, there are languages with specialized ...
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