---
title: "This Is Why You Should Learn Golang"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-is-why-you-should-learn-golang-hkip2-zqn
source_url: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/this-is-why-you-should-learn-golang-639b646320
type: article
source: "gitconnected"
published: 2021-10-29T03:13:44.984Z
updated: 2021-10-29T03:13:44.984Z
tags: ["general-programming", "golang"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 90
comments: 6
language: en
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# This Is Why You Should Learn Golang

**[gitconnected](https://daily.dev/sources/gc)** · 3 min read · 90 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

Golang is one of the youngest programming languages. It can be built and run on many platforms and environments. It has its own linter and formatter that tells you what variable is unused built right in. It also has a garbage collector , natively support concurrency, and a playground.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://levelup.gitconnected.com/this-is-why-you-should-learn-golang-639b646320>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@schadokar** · 1 upvotes

> Great article to list down the go highlights.
> Now, if you're convinced to follow the Go path.
> Check out this [Golang Developer Roadmap](https://youtu.be/wJ6JP22YOUk)
>
>
> ![go-roadmap-freecodecamp](https://res.cloudinary.com/daily-now/image/upload/s--og8eY1DA--/f_auto/v1708333368/ugc/content_8207e09c-2153-49a3-bcbe-720750a1698b)

**@heysyam99** · 0 upvotes

> Awesome

**@michaelho** · 0 upvotes

> Yeah!

**@zackarisl** · 0 upvotes

> Just started leaning go for a new position, loving writing go code and diving into ints concepts , teaching me alot of code in general comming from JS

**@ghost** · 0 upvotes

> A top-level overview of a language which you should definitely consider!

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