Google Launches 'Go' - Its Own Programming Language

by Yuliya Talmazan | November 11, 2009 at 04:35 pm

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Google announced on Tuesday the launch of its own new programming language called Go. The language is marketed as "expressive, concurrent, and garbage-collected." Google claims the language will be fast, type safe and open source. Go is said to combine the dynamics of Python and the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++. The Go programming language is in the experimental stages.

Go is a combination of basic syntax from the C family of languages, declarations and packages from the Pascal/Modula/Oberon family, and concurrency from Newsqueak and Limbo, Google said.

Go is merely an experiment, Google said. "We hope adventurous users will give it a try and see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further development."

Google's Go explanation video

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