In the Go programming language, data types refer to an extensive system used for declaring variables or functions of different types. The type of a variable determines how much space it occupies in storage and how the bit pattern stored is interpreted.
The types in Go can be classified as follows −
| Sr.No. | Types | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Numeric types | They are again arithmetic types and they represents a) integer types or b) floating point values throughout the program. |
| 2 | Character types | In Go, there is no char data type. It uses byte and rune to represent character values. |
| 3 | Boolean types | They are boolean types and consists of the two predefined constants: (a) true (b) false |
| 4 | Complex number types | A complex number is a combination of the real and imaginary part, where both parts of the complex number will be float type. |
| 5 | String types | A string type represents the set of string values. Its value is a sequence of bytes. Strings are immutable types that is once created, it is not possible to change the contents of a string. The predeclared string type is string. |