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key: pl/go
kind: plang
name: "Go"
url: https://plangs.page/go
---

# Go

> Statically typed, compiled language with memory safety and CSP-style concurrency, designed at Google.

Statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. It is syntactically similar to C, but offers memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. Sometimes referred to as Golang due to its former domain name golang.org, its proper name is Go. It is suitable for building scalable, simple, and secure systems.

## Facts

- Appeared: 2009
- Homepage: https://golang.org
- GitHub: https://github.com/golang/go
- Languish ranking: #7

## Relationships

### Paradigms

- [Concurrent](https://plangs.page/paradigm/concurrent)
- [Functional](https://plangs.page/paradigm/functional)
- [General-Purpose](https://plangs.page/paradigm/general-purpose)
- [Imperative](https://plangs.page/paradigm/imperative)
- [Multi](https://plangs.page/paradigm/multi)
- [Object-Oriented](https://plangs.page/paradigm/oop)

### Platforms

- [Apple](https://plangs.page/platform/apple)
- [BSD](https://plangs.page/platform/bsd)
- [Linux](https://plangs.page/platform/linux)
- [Windows](https://plangs.page/platform/windows)

### Type Systems

- [Inferred](https://plangs.page/type-system/inferred)
- [Nominal](https://plangs.page/type-system/nominal)
- [Static](https://plangs.page/type-system/static)
- [Strong](https://plangs.page/type-system/strong)
- [Structural](https://plangs.page/type-system/structural)

### Compiles To

- [WebAssembly](https://plangs.page/webassembly)

### Target Of

- [HCL](https://plangs.page/hcl)
- [Protocol Buffer](https://plangs.page/protocol-buffer)

### Influenced By

- [APL](https://plangs.page/apl)
- [C](https://plangs.page/c)
- [D](https://plangs.page/d)
- [Erlang](https://plangs.page/erlang)
- [Pascal](https://plangs.page/pascal)
- [Python](https://plangs.page/python)

### Influenced

- [Ballerina](https://plangs.page/ballerina)
- [Flix](https://plangs.page/flix)
- [Gleam](https://plangs.page/gleam)
- [Inko](https://plangs.page/inko)
- [V](https://plangs.page/v)
- [Zig](https://plangs.page/zig)

### Written With

- [Assembly](https://plangs.page/assembly)
- [C++](https://plangs.page/c++)

### Used to Write

- [Elvish](https://plangs.page/elvish)
- [HCL](https://plangs.page/hcl)
- [Ichiban Prolog](https://plangs.page/ichiban)
- [Rye](https://plangs.page/rye)
- [Starlark](https://plangs.page/starlark)

### Licenses

- [BSD](https://plangs.page/license/bsd)

### Tool Plang

- [esbuild](https://plangs.page/tool/esbuild)
- [Overmind](https://plangs.page/tool/overmind)

### Tags

- [Application](https://plangs.page/tag/app)
- [Better-C](https://plangs.page/tag/better-c)
- [CLI](https://plangs.page/tag/cli)
- [Compiler](https://plangs.page/tag/compiler)
- [DBMS](https://plangs.page/tag/dbms)
- [Industrial Control](https://plangs.page/tag/industrial)
- [Interpreter](https://plangs.page/tag/interpreters)
- [Testing](https://plangs.page/tag/testing)
- [Visualization](https://plangs.page/tag/viz)

### Communities

- [BEMBEM](https://plangs.page/community/bembem)