For any intermediate (2+ years) developer audience
In the mid-2010's, Google announced a new programming language, Go, and the collective reaction of most of the programming world was a giant yawn. Yet another language, and even though it came from some serious industry veterans--Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike--it didn't really seem to be bringing all that much that was new or intersting to the table.
By 2015, that tune had changed. Go is now one of the "up-and-comers" in the programming language world, and it owes its success to a variety of factors. In this presentation, we're going to take a hard look at the language, go over what it has (and what it lacks!), what makes it interesting, and get comfortable with some of the syntax basics, as a "first steps" towards building non-trivial Go programs in the future. It's probably not the last programming language you'll ever learn, but it is definitely on of the few that you should learn.
Published on 02 June 2023