Notes on Golangbot Golang tutorial series.

The primary focus of Golang is to make the development of highly available and scalable web apps simple and easy.

• “_” is the “blank identifier”
• Concurrency
• Compiled
• Static linking
• Go Playground
• Linux based IDEs?
• Debuggers?
• Code analyzers?
• Install Visual Studio (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux)

Advantages of Go:

• Simple syntax(?)
• Fast compilation
• Static linking
• Concurrency (goroutines and channels)
• Garbage collection
• Simple language specification
• Tooling
  • /usr/bin/gofmt (golang-bin package)
  • /usr/bin/golint (golint package)
  • go help vet
  • go help tool

Used as the basis for Docker and Kubernetes.

Third-party tooling, IDEs, etc.

• Go is strict about explicit typing.

• Value must be known at compile time
• Not sure what it means that “const” things have a “default” type until used
• What does it mean that something is “untyped”?