Go (Golang) on Mainframe (z/OS)

Petr Plavjaník
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readFeb 8, 2020

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Go, often called Golang, is a statically-typed, compiled programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Go is looks similar to C but it is memory-safe, it has garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency.

In the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019, it has ranked as #3 most wanted programming language after Python and JavaScript. It is also associated with the #3 highest paying jobs.

Stack Overflow — Developer Survey Results 2019

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Petr’s main areas of expertise are mainframes and automation, and using modern development tools and languages such as Java, Python, and Node.js on z/OS.