golang/go
The Go programming language
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Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Gopher image by Renee French, licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license. Our canonical Git repository is located at https://go.googlesource.com/go. There is a mirror of the repository at https://github.com/golang/go. Unless otherwise noted, the Go source files are distributed under the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file. Official binary distributions are available at https://go.dev/dl/. After downloading a binary release, visit https://go.dev/doc/install for installation instructions. If a binary distribution is not available for your…
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What this repository does
The Go programming language
Repository facts
- Owner
- golang
- Primary language
- Go
- Stars
- 139,717
- Forks
- 21,018
- Open issues + pull requests
- 9,853
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2014-08-19T04:33:40.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-31T19:29:31.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: go, golang, language, programming-language
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