Quick Recall of Go Concepts

Due to its easy-to-use syntax, lightweight executable, and high performance, Go would be a great choice to build the backend of any application.

For those who have not used Go in a while, we'll go over a few of the key concepts at lightning-fast speed. We won't be touching concurrency.

Variables

A variable is a means to store a value. It could be a string, a number (int, float), or something a little more complicated, like an array, a map, or a struct. In case you forgot how those work in Go, don’t worry! We’ll go over them soon enough.

Variables can be declared and defined in two ways.