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# Introduction

## Inception

**Golang** (GO) is another high-level programming language. It's usually used to make **backend stuff**. `Backend stuff`, I mean, for example rest API for your website, CMS for your website or chatbot. But, as it always is, the community made a lot of frameworks based on Golang, for example, A framework to use Golang as a frontend language (ex. **Buffalo**).

Also, you can create Desktop UI in Golang. Amount of frameworks for Golang is not such a big deal as it was for JavaScript, but it's nice to have something more than just pure language.

## More engineering stuff here

Golang is a statically typed compiled language in the tradition of C, but with some more features. Overall, **Go's syntax is similar to C's syntax**.

That features as I said are for example:

* **garbage collection**
* **structural typing**
* **concurrent programming**

Tools for Golang, compiler and source code of Golang are free and open-source.

If you want to see the full list of Golang libraries, packages, and stuff, you can see it [here](https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go#database).

> The file extension for Golang is **.go**