As far as we understand it, Go’s core mission is simply to make things faster for Google. "In Google we have very large software systems and we spend so long literally waiting for compilations,” ...

So far, we have talked about several programming languages, but until now, Go Programming Language, or Golang, has yet to fall into the discussion. Yes, it is not the most used of the languages, but ...

Google launched Go exactly 10 years ago, in November 2009, offering developers a new programming language that was optimized for multicore processors and which could exploit multithreading. To ...

Google's Go was 2016's programming language of the year, says the TIOBE Index, a highly-regarded resource for ranking the popularity of programming languages. While the TIOBE Index only catalogues the ...

Around 10,000 developers who use the Go programming language to build systems have given their feedback on the Google-backed language in Golang's 2020 developer survey. Unsurprisingly, adoption of Go ...

Go was first released as an open source programming language in 2009, and it’s had its ups and downs over the past 15 years. Although it was only released in November 2009, Go saw such a dramatic rise ...

Google builds software in ways that software was never built before. It builds software that runs across thousands of machines, spread across a worldwide network of computer data centers---a setup ...

Todd Kuehnl has been a developer for nearly 20 years and says he’s tried “pretty much every language under the sun.” But it was only recently that Kuehnl discovered Go, a programming language unveiled ...

Many of today’s programmers—excuse me, software engineers—consider themselves “creatives.” Artists of a sort. They are given to ostentatious personal websites with cleverly hidden Easter eggs and ...