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title: "Go / Golang"
ring: assess
quadrant: languages-and-frameworks
tags: [academy training, coding]
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2016 was the year of Go, with a lot of Open Source projects gaining a lot of attention and many companies started to use it.
2016 was the year of Go, with many open-source projects gaining significant attention, and numerous companies started to adopt it.
Go went from #54 to #13 on the [TIOBE index](http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/) in January 2017, and it became the TIOBE programming language of the year 2016.
Go jumped from #54 to #13 on the [TIOBE index](http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/) in January 2017, earning the title of TIOBE programming language of the year 2016.
Here at AOE, we use several services written in Go on a daily basis, such as Mattermost, Docker, Consul and Kubernetes. Also, more and more applications, such as GitLab, incorporate Go-based services to "off load" heavy work.
Here at AOE, we rely on several services written in Go on a daily basis, such as Mattermost, Docker, Consul, and Kubernetes. Moreover, more and more applications, like GitLab, are incorporating Go-based services to handle heavy workloads.
Go, as a programming language, has some very interesting features such as native support for concurrency (go routines), static compiled binaries with a very small memory footprint, cross compiling and much more. A big advantage of Go is the very flat learning curve, which allows developers from more dynamic languages such as PHP to be proficient in a very short time.
Go, as a programming language, offers several compelling features, including native support for concurrency (goroutines), statically compiled binaries with a minimal memory footprint, cross-compiling, and more. One significant advantage of Go is its shallow learning curve, enabling developers from more dynamic languages such as PHP to become proficient in a short time.
If you want to get a feeling for Go, you should start with the [online tour](https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1), within a day you'll have a good understanding of the core concepts, syntax, etc. - that is also because the language often tries to provide only one simple way of doing things; an example for this is that code formatting and styling is defined (yet not enforced as in Python). Part of this is also that Go itself is very opinionated: So, for example, for object oriented programming in Go, composition is the preferred way of defining data structures, and some might miss advanced concepts such as inheritance.
If you're interested in getting a feel for Go, you should start with the [online tour](https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1). Within a day, you'll gain a good understanding of the core concepts, syntax, etc. This is partly because the language often provides only one simple way of doing things; an example of this is the defined code formatting and styling (though not enforced as in Python). Additionally, Go itself is very opinionated; for instance, composition is the preferred way of defining data structures for object-oriented programming in Go, and some developers may miss advanced concepts such as inheritance.
We currently use Go for projects and microservices where we need flexibility and performance.
Currently, we use Go for projects and microservices where we require flexibility and performance.