Go (Golang) on Mainframe (z/OS)
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5 min readFeb 8, 2020
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.