Learn Go in 3 Hours - What Is Go and Where Does It Come From?

The video introduces the Go programming language, created by Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer at Google. It highlights Go's simplicity, strong typing, and modern standard library. Go is designed for fast compilation, efficient memory use, and built-in concurrency. It is ideal for cloud infrastructure and command-line tools, with popular projects like Docker and Kubernetes using it. The video also covers Go's performance benefits and its niche in high-performance internet services.

Who were the creators of the Go programming language?

• Guido van Rossum, Larry Wall, and Yukihiro Matsumoto

• Ken Thompson, Rob Pike, and Robert Griesemer

• Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling

• Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Tim Berners-Lee

What is a key feature of Go that contributes to its simplicity?

• It has a large number of built-in functions

• It supports multiple inheritance

• It has a small and intentionally limited feature set

• It uses dynamic typing

How does Go handle memory management?

• It requires manual memory management

• It uses a garbage collector

• It uses reference counting

• It does not manage memory

What makes Go's concurrency model unique?

• It uses threads for concurrency

• It is based on the actor model

• It is simpler yet powerful compared to other languages

• It does not support concurrency

Which of the following popular projects is written in Go?

• React

• Apache Hadoop

• Docker

• TensorFlow