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In Golang formatting, the code is much easier as the machine takes care of most of the formatting issues.
The gofmt package in Golang takes care of formatting and emits the code in standard style and in the vertical format.

Indentation - Golang uses tabs for indentation and gofmt by default takes care of it.
Line Length - Golang has no upper limit for line length. If you feel the line getting too long just use an extra tab to indent it.
Parentheses - Golang only uses parentheses with if, for, and switch. It is much lesser than other programming languages like C, C++, and Java.

Golang allows to comment the code in two ways

Example of Block Comment

package main

import "fmt"

/*
func main() {
	fmt.Println("Hello World") 
}

*/

Example of Line Comment

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
	fmt.Println("Hello World")  //Line Comment
}

Golang works in the same way as C works. Go by default uses semicolons to terminate statements.
But we don't have to use semicolons while writing the code. Golang's lexer automatically inserts semicolons as it scans the code.
Golang follows the rule to insert semicolons automatically if the last token before a new line is an identifier (like int and float64).

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