Author: Cuong Vu, Nathan Moles, Michael Vanderloo, Khalid Al-Motaery

Introduction

Go is a general-purpose language designed with systems programming in mind. It is strongly typed and garbage-collected and has explicit support for concurrent programming. Programs are constructed from packages, whose properties allow efficient management of dependencies.

Strengths

• Library can be easily created
• Lightweight
• Fast
• Diverse functionalities

Paradigms

• Imperative
• Concurrent
• Object-Oriented (through simple structs)

Installation

Getting started with GoLang is simple. 

• Download Go

1. Identify your operating system.
2. Go to GoLang's official download page and download the appropriate version: https://go.dev/dl/
3. Follow the instructions relating to your operating system. 
4. Follow the instructions on the download manager file.
5. Check if Go was installed by typing "go version" on your terminal.

• Choose your favorite IDE and start coding. 
• If you don't want to go through the process of setting your local development environment, you can run some simple code on the Go Playground