Introduction to Golang

Concepts of Programming Languages

Gopher

• German: Taschenratte

Google Trend von "golang"

• 2007: Development Start: Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike und Ken Thompson
• 2009: First Presentation
• 2012: Version 1
• 2014: First Gopher conference

Why Go?

• Go is the major language behind the Cloud Native Stack

www.cncf.io/

• The most important components are written in Go: Docker, Kubernetes, etcd, Prometheus, Grafana, ...
• Go is Open Source and maintained by Google
• Go is a distributed, parallel language designed for systems programming at Google to solve the problems of C++ code.

Introduction to Golang

Rob Pike @ Google 2009 (60 Min)

go_talk_2009.pdf

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s

Hello World

package main

import (
    "fmt"
)

func main() {
    fmt.Printf("Hello %s", "Programming with Go \xE2\x98\xAF\n") // \xE2\x98\xAF -> ☯
    fmt.Printf("Hello %s", "Programming with Go ☯\n")
}

Orthogonal classification for Go

• Static
• Compiled
• Parallel
• Static Linked
• Safe
• Assembler
• Cross Platform

Some Questions

• What are the characteristics of a successful language?
• What makes Go different to other Languages?
• What makes Go similar to other Languages?
• Discuss your personal opinions in a group of students!

Exercise 1

github.com/s-macke/concepts-of-programming-languages/blob/master/docs/exercises/Exercise1.md

See also

github.com/s-macke/concepts-of-programming-languages

golang.org/

golang.org/doc/

github.com/avelino/awesome-go

Thank you