Go / Golang Basic Data Types

Whatever you want to call it Go or Golang. This article is one of a series of articles covering all things Go, starting with Basic Types.

Go is a fast growing programming language, with its inception at Google in 2007. Originally created with simplicity, reliability and efficiency in mind to mainly write server programs. Now this language has burgeoned out to include many other fields and the Go team is adding new features all the time. Go’s popularity is growing each year. More and more companies are transitioning it into their tech stack.

What’s the point of my spiel? Simply put Go is a language that should be on your radar. Really in all likelihood it already is and so here you are.

In this and the series of posts to follow, we will be covering Go and all of its many features. Initially I’ll cover the different data types Go has to work with. You’ll have to keep following after to see whats next.

Let’s get started.

bool

Get it? On Off / True False. That’s the two values that a bool, aka boolean can have…