Coming from other languages it can be surprising that Go does not support string interpolation. What do I mean by string interpolation? Well, take this snippet of PHP for example: $x = 49; $msg = "Hello world"; echo "The number is $x and the message is $msg"; When running the program PHP will evaluate the double quoted string and automatically replace the $x and $msg placeholders with the appropriate values. In the end, The number is 49 and the message is Hello world will be echoed.