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  1. Go originated from solving software engineering problems at large scale (huge amount of programmers, lines of code, computing resources) and is aimed at being simple but powerful
  2. Go started from C (pretty much all the authors were authors of C) and removed complex parts of C
  3. Go introduces the concept of, a key feature for building distributed systems

I consider myself a minimalist and a Stoic so Go's philosophy really satisfies me :D

also as a minimalist, I only recommend resources as necessary as possible:

official tutorial, you can pretty much finish it in a day

Learning Go's author Jon Bodner and I both work at Datadog and we two have been organizing its book club from 2023 April, so if you read this book, you could definitely talk to me :)

Russ Cox (one of the authors of Go) from Google gave this talk in 2013, presenting Go's approach to solving some of those problems of building distributed systems.

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