Go is a modern server language with great concurrency primitives and a memory system that is mostly automated. It is considered by some to be a successor to C, and it manages to do so in many scenarios because it's performant, has an extensive standard library, and has a great community that provides many third-party libraries which cover, extend, and improve its functionalities.
Language features
History of Go
Go was created in 2007 in order to try and address Google's engineering problems, and was publicly announced in 2009, reaching version 1.0 in 2012. The major version is still the same (version 1), while the minor version grows (version 1.1, 1.2, and so on) together with its ...
