Introduction

Go, often referred to as Golang, is a general-purpose programming language that was developed at Google in November 2009.

Several programming languages are available for writing different kinds of software systems, and some languages have existed for decades. Some mainstream programming languages are evolving by adding new features in their newer versions, which are released with many new features in each version. Both C# and Java provide too many features in their language specification.

At the same time, lots of innovations and evolutions are happening for the computer hardware and IT infrastructure. Software systems are written with feature-rich programming languages, but we can’t leverage the power of modern computers and IT ...

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