Explore Go programming, understanding its concurrency advantages over traditional languages. Gain insights into why Go is crucial as Moore’s Law fades, suitable for beginners.

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As Moore’s Law is reaching the end of its lifecycle, the need for concurrency is rising and consequently, the need for a programming language that enables effective implementation of concurrent programs is rising too. For this reason, Go has become one of the most popular languages in recent times. This course aims to provide a detailed introduction to Go for beginners. Furthermore, it also articulates how Go is different from traditional programming languages that programmers are accustomed to in order to acquaint programmers getting ready to delve into Go with the language too.

An Introduction to Programming in Go

# Using the `new` Expression

Now that we know the different types variables can take, we will look into initializing variables. Go supports the `new` expression to allocate a
zeroed value of the requested type and to return a pointer to it.


As seen in [Section: Structs](https://www.educative.io/courses/introduction-to-programming-in-go/structs/) a common way to "initialize" a
variable containing a struct or a reference to one, is to create a struct literal. Another option is to create a constructor.
This is usually done when the zero value isn't good enough and you need
to set some default field values for instance.

Note that following expressions using `new` and an empty struct literal are equivalent and result in the same
kind of allocation/initialization:

This lesson discusses initializing variables using the new expression in Go

The Basics

Types

Collection Types

Control flow

Methods

Interfaces

Concurrency

Get Setup

Online Coding Challenges

Tips & Tricks

Initializing

Using the `new` Expression