The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive.

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

Note that go is included in the OEL8 distribution but this is a somewhat older version. More current versions are available through module load go.

Documentation

Go documentation home
Source code

Usage

$ module load go
$ cat >hello.go <<EOF
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
  fmt.Println("Hello World!")
}
EOF
$ go run hello.go
Hello World!