Golang, also known as “Go, ” is a compiled language, fast and high-performance language intended to be simple and is designed to be easy to read and understand. Go was created at Google by Rob Pike, Robert Griesemer, and Ken Thompson, and it first appeared in Nov 2009. The syntax of Golang is designed to be highly clean and accessible.

Go was invented in 2007 at such a time when multicore CPU architectures were common everywhere, and no programming language simplified the development of multi-threaded applications. The responsibility of managing different threads safely and efficiently was a huge responsibility on developers. Go is different from other languages; it is young yet so powerful. Goroutines revolutionized competitive programming on the other level.

It is tested and proved that applications that are written on Go are highly performant and scalable. Golang is a very efficient language, just like C/C++, handling parallelisms like Java, and has easy code readability like Python and pearl. Golang has indisputable architectural advantages over its predecessors.

Go is used by some of the big brands such as BBC, Uber, Novartis, Basecamp, and Soundcloud. Uber has reported better throughput, high performance, latency, and uptime. BBC, the house name in broadcasting the world news, uses it for backend, including crawlers and web scrapers. The build and deployment system of Soundcloud is in Go.

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