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Any one interested in learning this modern programming language from google ? I am . And would appreciate contributions from all .
I welcome suggestions of a project theme that will guide us in our venture into this language .

So what is Go or Golang( Go Language) ?

Golang is server side technology that you can use to build server side applications that gives you a great interprocess distributed communication network. Say you're building a Q based system that needs to be highly reliable across a number of different machines, Golang is the way to go.

I would only be interested if I know the application, don't want to learn for learning sake. What type of apps can it build that others can't efficiently?

Go is a fast-compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent systems programming language. It has the following advantages:
Compiles a large project within a few seconds.
Provides a software development model that is easy to reason about, avoiding most of the problems that caused by C-style header files.
Is a static language that does not have levels in its type system, so users do not need to spend much time dealing with relations between types. It is more like a lightweight object-oriented language.
Performs garbage collection. It provides basic support for concurrency and communication.
Designed for multi-core computers.
Go is a compiled language. It combines the development efficiency of interpreted or dynamic languages with the security of static languages. It is going to be the language of choice for the modern multi-core computers with networking. For these purposes, there are some problems
that have to be resolved in language itself, such as a richly expressive lightweight type system, concurrency, and strictly regulated garbage collection. For quite some time, no packages or tools have come out that have solved all of these problems pragmatically; thus was born the
motivation for the Go language.

Ride on.

Interested

pcguru1:
I would only be interested if I know the application, don't want to learn for learning sake. What type of apps can it build that others can't efficiently?

Try it for web apps and you will be amazed at it's blazing fast speed and "easy to write and maintain" code

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