What are the Important Features and tools of Go Programming?

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2 min readApr 12, 2019

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Google Go programming language is an open source programming language, widely used for making robust, reliable, simple software and open source projects. The syntax for the Go language is similar to C.

Developed in 2007, Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson of Google created the Go language. Many characteristics of Go language was developed to enhance run-time efficiency and static typing similar to C++ or Java. The languages readability and usability is Python or JavaScript friendly.

Go has proven to be one of the developers’ favorite languages for it high-performance networking and multiprocessing scripting capabilities.

Tools of Go language: Go has a list of tools that makes the language easy to work with and flexible.

1) Gofmt: As the name implies goFmt is a tool used to automatically format Go source code.

2) Gorun: This gorun tool is very frequently used by Go developers in Python and source codes.

3) Goget: The goget tool is used to easily access and import libraries from Go paths.

4) Godoc: Is used in the documentation process in HTML. Go doc parses source code for smooth navigation with a single click.

Apart from this, Go Revive, Go Callvis, Realize, Gotests are open source tools use in the coding of Go programming language.

Features of Go language: The following are additional features of Go programming that attract developers.

a) Easily Understandable and Readable: In Go language, each variable type and function arguments are static. This aids in ensuring code functionalities making them easily readable.

b) Fast Compilation: Go run command is used to fire the Go program. It makes the overall compilation of code process faster.

c) Fast Execution: Fast compilation of code across operating system is responsible for the speed of page loads.

Besides this, Go binary code is easily portable and can run on any server that consists Linux X86–64 architecture. Google Go programming language widely adopted by most of the developers and use to build native and cross-platform mobile apps and software.

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