Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

There are several graph database languages on the market, including Neo4j’s Cypher, Google Cayley, TIBCO, Apache TinkerPop Gremlin, Amazon’s Neptune and TigerGraph’s GSQL, to name a few.

A new programming language announced by MIT this week aims to remedy that problem, and so far it’s been found to deliver fourfold speed boosts on common algorithms.

Defining schema as programmatic Go code. Static typing based on code generation. Easy-to-write database queries and graph traversals. An ability to extend and customize using Go templates.