How Apple Uses Golang

Welcome back! Golang is a very popular programming language, so, let’s take a look at how a massive company like Apple uses this language. Now, I found these specific projects by going to their career page, looking at relevant positions, and finding the projects where they use Golang:

So, let’s take a look at some of these projects!

Software Engineering

First up we have software engineering, Apple (much like other companies) utilize Go to develop out a bunch of software. Now, Apple does require experience with other languages as well (including Java, Python and C++), so what makes Go different? Well, Go is a very flexible language for both software engineering and web development. Below is a screenshot of a sample software engineer qualifications page:

Automation

Another area Apple uses Go is for some automation projects, in fact, I saw several jobs related to automation that involved Go. Although there are other languages revolved for these positions…