Greetings, Future Coder! Today, we're going to deepen our knowledge of the Go programming language as we explore loop structures. Think of loops as roads you walk down, going in circles until you find your way out - or in our case, satisfy a condition. The Go language uses only one looping keyword, the for loop, and we're about to see how it efficiently covers the functionalities typically provided by while and do-while loops in other languages.
In Go programming, a for loop can handle tasks usually performed by a while loop in many other languages. This is done by using only the conditional part of the for loop.
Here is the for loop's structure, which mimics a while loop:
Below is a simple for structure that acts like a while loop, counting down from 5 to 0:
