Development

Conditional statements are part of every programming language. With conditional statements, we can have code that sometimes runs and at other times does not run, depending on the conditions of the program at that time. This tutorial will take you through writing conditional statements in the Go programming language.

switch is an alternative conditional statement useful for communicating actions taken by your Go programs when presented with different options. Everything we can write with the switch statement can also be written with if statements. We’ll look at a few examples of what the switch statement can do, the if statements it replaces, and where it’s most appropriately applied.