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,” ...

How to get started with this useful new programming language. You've probably heard of Go. Like any new programming language, it took a while to mature and stabilize to the point where it became ...

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 ...

The Go team is working to adapt Go to large multicore systems, the latest hardware instructions, and the needs of developers of large-scale AI systems. The Go programming language having just turned ...

Most developers who use the Google-backed Go programming language still love using it, but lament the missing features and choice of libraries available with Python. The Go team surveyed 11,840 ...

The Go language (Golang) has taken the eighth spot in the Tiobe language popularity index. Here's this month's report. Google’s Go language, or golang, has reached its highest position ever in the ...

Lots of developers really want to learn Go, a programming language for large systems created by Google, meanwhile most developers are sick of attending meetings, and most of those working at ...

Does the world need a new beginner’s programming language? In the 1960s, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and ALGOL were the primary introductory programming languages. In the 1970s and 1980s, Pascal, C, ...

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 ...

Version 1.11 of the Go programming language was released over the weekend, just in time for GopherCon 2018, where Google announced the release of draft designs to be potentially implemented in ‘Go 2.’ ...