# What The HECK is GO!! | Let's GO | Anjal Bam

The [**Go**](https://go.dev) programming language commonly referred  to as Golang, is a general-purpose programming language, developed by Google in 2007. The first version of Go was released in 2012.

The Go programming language is an open-source project considered an expressive, concise, clean, and efficient programming language. Go can compile to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time application. It is a faster, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.


## What can I use Go for?
According to the [documentation](https://go.dev/doc/), you can use Go for the following:
- Cloud and Network Services
- Command line interfaces (CLIs)
- Web development
- DevOps and SRE

## Installing Go
To install Go, we should follow the official docs [here](https://go.dev/doc/install)

To check if the version is properly installed, use the following command in your terminal:
```sh
go version
```
> Confirm that the command prints the installed version of go.

## Conclusion 
This tutorial tells us what Go is, and how Go is installed and we'll get started with programming in go in the following lessons in the series.