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History
30 related topics
Design
49 related topics
Tools
13 related topics
Reception
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Key facts & relationships
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- Designed by
- Robert Griesemer Rob Pike Ken Thompson
- Developer
- Google and contributors
- Filename extensions
- .go
- First appeared
- November 10, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-10)
- Implementation language
- Go, Assembly language (gc); C++ (gofrontend)
- License
- 3-clause BSD + patent grant
Topics to explore
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Overview
- High-level High-level programming language
- General-purpose programming language General purpose programming language
- Statically typed Static typing
- Compiled Compiled language
- Robert Griesemer
- Rob Pike
- Ken Thompson
- Syntax Syntax (programming languages)
- C++
- Garbage collection Garbage collection (computer science)
- Structural Structural type system
- CSP Communicating sequential processes
- Concurrency Concurrency (computer science)
- Standard library
- Self-hosting Self-hosting (compilers)
- Compiler
- Toolchain
- GCC GNU Compiler Collection
- LLVM
- Class inheritance Inheritance (object-oriented programming)
- Composition Object composition
- Protocols Protocol (object-oriented programming)
- Runtime polymorphism
- Duck typing
- Nominal Nominal type system
- Java Java (programming language)
- C# C Sharp (programming language)
- Rust Rust (programming language)
- JSON
History
- Programming productivity
- Multicore Multi-core processor
- Networking Computer network
- Machines Computer
- Codebases Codebase
- Run-time Run time (program lifecycle phase)
- Readability
- Usability
- Python Python (programming language)
- Multicore
- Commit Commit (version control)
- Gopher
- Mascot
- Open source
- Renée French
- Plan 9 Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- WFMU
- Charles Bigelow Charles Bigelow (type designer)
- Kris Holmes
- Humanist sans-serif
- Lucida Grande
- Helvetica
- Arial
- Monospaced
- WGL4
- X-height
- Letterforms Letterform
- DIN
- Generic programming
- Error handling Exception handling
Design
- Dialect Dialect (computing)
- Dynamic languages Dynamic programming language
- Without specifying the types Type inference
- Light-weight processes Light-weight process
- Channels Channel (programming)
- Virtual inheritance
- Statically linked Static library
- § Lack of data race safety Go (programming language)
- C23 C23 (C standard revision)
- Maps Associative array
- Slices Array slicing
- Booleans Boolean data type
- UTF-8
- Record types Record (computer science)
- Array type Array data type
- Dynamic arrays Dynamic array
- Pointers Pointer (computer programming)
- Hash table
- IPv4
- Function Subroutine
- Parameters Parameter (computer programming)
- Return Return statement
- Method Method (computer programming)
- Concurrent programs Concurrent programming
- Asynchronous Asynchronous I/O
- Green thread
- Operating-system threads Thread (computer science)
- Erlang Erlang (programming language)
- Haskell
- Glasgow Haskell Compiler
Tools
- Building Build automation
- Testing Unit testing
- Analyzing Static program analysis
- Profiling Profiling (computer programming)
- Debugging
- Fuzzing
- IDE Integrated development environment
- Intelligent code completion
- Language Server Protocol
- Source-to-source compiler
- Transpiles Transpiler
- JavaScript
- Front-end web development
Examples
Applications
- Caddy Caddy (web server)
- Docker Docker (software)
- Kubernetes
- CockroachDB
- Hugo Hugo (software)
- TypeScript
Reception
- Standard ML
- Engine Yard
- TIOBE Programming Community Index
- Pascal Pascal (programming language)
- COBOL
- Fortran
- Bruce Eckel
- Scala Scala (programming language)
- Nil Null pointer
- Algebraic types
- Base cases Base case (recursion)
- POSIX
- Windows Microsoft Windows
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Go (programming language)
Top relations
Designed by · 1
Go (programming language) → Robert Griesemer Rob Pike Ken Thompson
Developer · 1
Go (programming language) → Google and contributors
Filename extensions · 1
Go (programming language) → .go
First appeared · 1
Go (programming language) → November 10, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-10)
Implementation language · 1
Go (programming language) → Go, Assembly language (gc); C++ (gofrontend)
License · 1
Go (programming language) → 3-clause BSD + patent grant
Memory management · 1
Go (programming language) → Garbage collection
OS · 1
Go (programming language) → DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Solaris, Windows
Paradigm · 1
Go (programming language) → Multi-paradigm: concurrent, imperative, functional, object-oriented
Stable release · 1
Go (programming language) → 1.27.0 / 19 August 2026; 5 days ago (19 August 2026)
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Important terminology
go type language interface types code channels syntax concurrency google programming standard package example goroutines languages interfaces using also typing
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go (programming language) | Designed by | Robert Griesemer Rob Pike Ken Thompson | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | Developer | Google and contributors | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | Filename extensions | .go | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | First appeared | November 10, 2009; 16 years ago (2009-11-10) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | Implementation language | Go, Assembly language (gc); C++ (gofrontend) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | License | 3-clause BSD + patent grant | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | Memory management | Garbage collection | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | OS | DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Solaris, Windows | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: concurrent, imperative, functional, object-oriented | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | Stable release | 1.27.0 / 19 August 2026; 5 days ago (19 August 2026) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | Typing discipline | Inferred, static, strong, structural, nominal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Go (programming language) | Website | go.dev | 1.00 | infobox |
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Nodes165
Edges164
Triples23
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012121
Components1
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