---
title: "Introduction to the Go programming language"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/introduction-to-the-go-programming-language-hxewaqhwc
source_url: https://flaviocopes.com/golang-introduction/
type: article
source: "Flavio Copes"
published: 2022-09-06T06:07:00.354Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:33:34.910Z
tags: ["c", "c++", "golang", "javascript", "vscode"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 13
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Introduction to the Go programming language

**[Flavio Copes](https://daily.dev/sources/flaviocopes)** · 3 min read · 13 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Go is an awesome, simple, modern, fast programming language. It’s compiled, open source, strongly typed. It was created by Google engineers with these main goals: Make their projects compile (and run) faster. It was meant to be a replacement for C and C++ codebases.

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