Intro and Hello World/Go

CS

Outline

Lecture material:

• History & Today
• Acronyms
• Characteristics
• Compiling
• Running
• Documentation

Material

History of Go:

• Compiled language
• Created at Google
• Many features of a lower-level language like C, not a noun-oriented objects language like Java, in fact does not really have objects

Go Today:

• Go is a very new language, but gaining popularity
• Why?
  • Supported by large software company - much of Google's software runs on Go so it is not Go-ing anywhere
  • Designed to do complicated things at scale, high perf. language