Just Go For It!

Go is an up-and-coming language that is gaining in popularity. It features syntax similar to C, but a lighter environment for system and application development than using C, C++, or Java. It is compiled, but has many of the best features found in dynamic languages such as JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. It is also highly portable. Programs written in Go will run on Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. In this session, we'll do a crash-dive into the Go language. I will show you how to set up a Go development environment, cover some of the syntax, and we will take a look at some real production code that is written in Go as case studies for the types of applications and systems that you can build with the Go language.