Six quick reasons why every developer should program in Go.

1. 6 Reasons You Should
Program in Go
Spoiler: It’s fun!

2. Go is a compiled language
• Many programmers target VM/interpreter
• Closer to the metal
• Compile to single binary
• No VM needed
• No standard library to carry around
• No more missing libraries

3. Concurrency is really easy
• Goroutines is great
• Built in support - no externals needed
• “go “ prefix for concurrency is nice
• Channels makes communication easy

4. Writting servers is easy
• Powerful net/http library
• As easy as node.js
• Production ready
• Mock servers easily written

5. The code is beautiful
• gofmt
• Multiple return types
• Minimal and to-the-point
• and seriously, gofmt

6. Fantastic standard library
• Very powerful
• Most features included out of the box
• Community packages also fantastic

7. • Go with it
• It will work with you
• It will work for you
• “go get”, “go build”, “go test” and “go install”
will make you happy!
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