11.11.2009

Google’s GO: A New Programming Language

by amed
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Yesterday, Google has announced the release of a new, open source programming language called GO. As Google continues to improve our day to day lives, this seems to be a very expected evolutions of the big G.
Google has shown to be an innovative in creating what fits best for them. For example, Google's infrastructure does not run on commercially available servers such as IBM, HP etc. Google internally has designed a very efficient, modular and cost effective server to complement their modular data center designs. You can more about at CNet News here ( http://tinyurl.com/googleserverlink).
On their website,. golang.org, Google describes the new language as dynamic code similar to Python and JavaScript, and less cumbersome then Java and C++. The new language also seems to be cross-platform due to recent emergence of the multicore computers.

Here is the most famous Hello World in GO:

package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
  fmt.Printf("Hello, World\n")
}


Google cites that GO is not yet mature compiler to handle large scale computations ( I assume they talking Google big), however they do admit that the code is being used today internally by the Google folks. There is no reference to which Google projects that may be runningGO. But I'm sure it's just a matter of time until this is pushed onto Chromium and Google Android.

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