Microsoft Azure provides development support for a wide variety of languages. Official Software Development Kits (SDKs) are available for the most popular web programming languages including .NET, Java, Node.js (JavaScript), PHP, Python, and Ruby.

One of the newest languages that Microsoft supports is Go (sometimes styled as Golang).

About Go

Go is an open source language created at Google in 2007. It was grown in popularity and influence rapidly, now powering vital infrastructure throughout the intranet. It was named 2016’s Programming Language of the Year by TIOBE and is a core language within Docker, CloudFlare, and Uber.