The Go programming language is statically typed and compiled language with garbage collection and one of the newest languages gaining popularity quite fast. Why is it gaining popularity? Well, to start with it is very versatile. This means one can implement it in many different fields.
Being a new(er) language, Go is designed to avoid some of the shortcomings of the old languages –namely, it is asynchronous (this means that no piece of code is “blocking” other code from performing. This greatly increases speed), designed for multicore processors and running concurrent tasks. To visually represent Go comparison to other languages Cuelogic created the following diagram:
If we have to summarise Go’s advantages in a very short form, we can say that using Go one can achieve the performance of C or C++ along with the concurrency of Python and Java. This is a course for children who have shown genuine interest in coding.