How I Learned Go Programming

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Go is a relatively new programming language, and nothing makes a developer go crazier than a new programming language, haha! As many new tech inventions, Go was created as an experiment. The goal of its creators was to come up with a language that would resolve bad practices of others while keeping the good things. It was first released in March 2012. Since then Go has attracted many developers from all fields and disciplines.

During the second quarter of this Year, I joined ViVA XD, an In-flight entertainment platform changing the world one trip at a time. We chose Go to build the whole infrastructure. Go was/is still an awesome choice for us in terms of performance, and its fast and simple development process.

In this article, I’ll give a short introduction of the Go language and it would serve as a motivation for further reading.

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