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.

Famous for easy concurrency, Go has become the language of countless cloud-native projects. Here’s everything you should know about Google’s hit programming language.

Go was created as an easier language for system programming. Go’s designers focused on creating a language that is a balance between efficient compilation, fast execution and ease of programming.

The lower-level programming language has matured enough to sport the 1.0 version number. And it's being used for real work at Google. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Google Go's mascot is a gopher, much like the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Hannah Foslien/Getty Images Google's Go was 2016's programming language of the year, says the TIOBE Index, a highly-regarded ...

10. To thrive, Google Go needs to sprout an ecosystem Pike said he “hopes” that the language will generate an ecosystem. However, “This is a kind of skunkworks project,” he said.

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. Go has been used at AWS ...

Go offers an expressive type system, fast compilation, good performance, and built-in language features that simplify threaded programming and concurrency. The language has been under development ...

Big news for developers out there: Google has just announced the release of a new, open sourced programming language called Go. The company says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the ...

The programming language’s team has released its 2016 survey results, which revealed 89% of respondents are using Go. Of that 89%, 36% use Go both at home and at work, 27% use Go only at home ...