Go (programming language)
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For the 2003 agent-based programming language, see Go! (programming language).
For other uses, see Go (disambiguation).
Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google[12] by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.[4] It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing,[7] and CSP-style concurrency.[13] It is often referred to as Golang because of its former domain name, golang.org, but its proper name is Go.[14]
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| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: concurrent imperative, functional[1] object-oriented[2][3] |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Robert Griesemer Rob Pike Ken Thompson[4] |
| Developer | The Go Authors[5] |
| First appeared | November 10, 2009; 14 years ago (2009-11-10) |
| Stable release | 1.22.3
/ 7 May 2024; 16 days ago (7 May 2024) |
| Typing discipline | Inferred, static, strong,[6] structural,[7][8] nominal |
| Memory management | Garbage collection |
| Implementation language | Go, Assembly language (gc); C++ (gofrontend) |
| OS | DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,[9] Plan 9,[10] Solaris, Windows |
| License | 3-clause BSD[5] + patent grant[11] |
| Filename extensions | .go |
| Website | go |
| Major implementations | |
| gc, gofrontend | |
| Influenced by | |
| C, Oberon-2, Limbo, Active Oberon, communicating sequential processes, Pascal, Oberon, Smalltalk, Newsqueak, Modula-2, Alef, APL, BCPL, Modula, occam | |
| Influenced | |
| Crystal, V (Vlang) | |
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There are two major implementations:
- Google's self-hosting[15] "gc" compiler toolchain, targeting multiple operating systems and WebAssembly.[16]
- gofrontend, a frontend to other compilers, with the libgo library. With GCC the combination is gccgo;[17] with LLVM the combination is gollvm.[18][lower-alpha 1]
A third-party source-to-source compiler, GopherJS,[20] compiles Go to JavaScript for front-end web development.