Philosophy

• Simplicity
• Cross-platform support
• Existence of network requests and concurrency execution
• Library-free experience; the standard library is enough for strings, network, file management, testing
• Backwards compatibility
• Command Line Interface is powerful

Go CLI

The most important features..

• Project initialization: go mod init
• Build: go build
• Test: go test
• Run: go run (builds and runs the project + cleanup)
• Profiling
• Documentation: godoc
• Formatting: gofmt
• Code generation: go generate
• Automatic retrieval of dependencies: also, go get
• Report language bugs: go bug