---
title: "Golang | The Basics Part 1"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/golang-the-basics-part-1-ifan2cfc
source_url: https://medium.com/@waleed-ahmed/golang-the-basics-part-1-802dd0d8def7?source=rss------golang-5
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2022-09-22T21:52:22.465Z
updated: 2023-09-04T02:16:07.446Z
tags: ["cloud", "cloud-native", "golang", "java"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 11
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Golang | The Basics Part 1

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 2 min read · 11 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Golang is a fast, reliable and compiled language designed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson at Google in 2007. GO became an open source project in 2012. It is mostly used to create high performance large scale distributed infrastructures. It was initially developed for distributed network services but now it is expanding towards looking at the func maincompiler.

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