Go (programming language)

Go, also known as Golang, is a statically-typed concurrent programming language made by an engineer team at Google.^[8][9]

Go

Paradigm	Multi-paradigm: concurrent imperative, object-oriented[1][2]
Designed by	Robert Griesemer Rob Pike Ken Thompson
Developer	The Go Authors[3]
First appeared	November 10, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-11-10)
Stable release	1.24.3[4]  / 6 May 2025; 15 days ago (6 May 2025)
Typing discipline	Inferred, static, strong, structural,[5][6] nominal
Implementation language	Go, Assembly language (gc); C++ (gofrontend)
OS	many
License	3-clause BSD[3] + patent grant[7]
Filename extensions	.go
Website	go.dev
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, Erlang,
Influenced
Odin, Crystal, Zig, V (Vlang)

Example

Here is a hello world program in Go.

package main
// Import fmt library through the standard library.
import "fmt"

// Define entry point.
func main() {
    // Write to output.
    fmt.println("Hello world!")
}