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The Go Project Includes

The Go project includes

• the language itself,
• its tools and standard libraries, and last but not least,
• a cultural agenda of radical simplicity.

As a recent high-level language, Go has the benefit of hindsight, and the basics are done well: it has

• garbage collection,
• a package system,
• first-class functions,
• lexical scope,
• a system call interface, and
• immutable strings in which text is generally encoded in ‘UTF-8’.