Things I love about Go

Here is a list of various things I love about the Go programming language:

• Statically typed language

• C-like syntax (and consistent one!)

• Compiled language (No possible source code alteration when deployed on production servers)

• Statically linked binaries (No dependencies hell, easy to deploy in production)

• Easy cross-compilation, both 32-bit and 64-bit (FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X and Windows)

• Ultra fast compilation

• No Makefiles (Replaced by the Go tool: go build & go install)

• Gofmt tool (automatically formats Go programs)

• Functions with multiple return values

• Rich and feature-full standard library

• Future proof (Goroutines & Channels)