I have been trying to learn Go (golang) this week a bit more formally. I have worked with Go in the past but I could do it because it has syntactical familiarity with other languages I use or have used–PHP, JavaScript, C#, C, etc. This time, I wanted to do it a bit more formally as I am thinking of using Go to write a non-trivial application. In this post, I compare Go with other languages I know, mainly PHP, to compare concepts and build understanding.