Time to Go! Learning #golang through Examples
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I’ve recently taken interest in the #blockchain open source community. The first thing that I’ve noticed is that the majority of projects I have encountered are written in Go. Go has been on my radar for a long time, as the community is quite excited about it and sings it high praises.Why Go?Go is a statically typed, compiled language like C++ and Java. And it follows the simplicity of ‘C’ in syntax and semantics with some additional features.goroutinesIn comparison to older #programming languages (Python, Java etc.) Go was released very recently in 2009. Go was built with concurrency in mind and the ability to utilize multi processors efficiently. Rob Pike (Go creator) has an in depth talk about this. The end result is running concurrent go routines is much cheaper than threading in other (...)