Today is the day after my birthday. It is also the day we have invited the other half of the family and friends to come visit and celebrate.

Day 5

Regardless, I have started reading up on Go’s different types. Understanding the data types and how to interact with them is arguably the first step to becoming familiar with any programming language.

Go is strictly typed, but can guess the type a variable will be storing based on the initialised value. The key point to remember is to always convert different types to match. And try not to lose data while converting.