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  <h1>Getting started</h1>

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      <span><a href="/doc/install.html">Install Go</a>.</span>
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      <span>Read the <a href="/doc/go_tutorial.html">tutorial</a>.</span>
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      <span>Learn the <a href="/pkg">libraries</a>.</span>
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  <h1>Slow compiles?<br>Watch this</h1>
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      <div><span style="font-size: 2em; font-weight: bold;">a systems programming language</span><br><span style="font-size: 1.5em;">expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected</span></div>
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<p style="font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: bold;">Go is &hellip;</p>

<h3>&hellip; simple</h3>
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package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
  fmt.Printf("Hello, 世界\n")
}</pre>

<h3>&hellip; fast</h3>

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Go compilers produce fast code fast. Typical builds take a fraction of a second yet the resulting programs run nearly as quickly as comparable C or C++ code.
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<h3>&hellip; safe</h3>

<p>Go is type safe and memory safe. Go has pointers but no pointer arithmetic.
For random access, use slices, which know their limits.</p>

<h3>&hellip; concurrent</h3>

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Go promotes writing systems and servers as sets of lightweight
communicating processes, called goroutines, with strong support from the language.
Run thousands of goroutines if you want&mdash;and say good-bye to stack overflows.
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<h3>&hellip; fun</h3>

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Go has fast builds, clean syntax, garbage collection,
methods for any type, and run-time reflection.
It feels like a dynamic language but has the speed and safety of a static language.
It's a joy to use.
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<h3>&hellip; open source</h3>

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<a href="/doc/install.html">Go for it</a>.
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