The Go programming language

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Go, also known as Golang, is a programming language developed by Google in 2007. It is a statically-typed, compiled language that is designed to be easy to read and write, and to optimize for modern systems.

One of the main features of Go is its support for concurrent programming, which allows developers to write programs that can perform multiple tasks concurrently.

This is achieved through the use of goroutines, which are lightweight threads of execution, and channels, which are used for communication between goroutines.

For example, let´s code a simple goroutine:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
 // Start a goroutine that prints "Hello, World!"
 go func() {
  fmt.Println("Hello, World!")
 }()

 // Do other work here
 fmt.Println("Doing other work...")
}

In this example, the main function starts a new goroutine by calling the go keyword followed by a function literal (also known as an anonymous function). This function runs concurrently with the main function and will print "Hello, World!" to the console.

The main function then continues to execute, printing “Doing other work…” to the console.

As you can see, my dear reader, goroutines are a powerful way to perform concurrent tasks in Go, and they are easy to use due to the…