The Go Programming Language

Google Tech Talks
October 30, 2009

ABSTRACT

Presented by Rob Pike

What is Go?

Go is a new experimental systems programming language intended to make software development fast. Our goal is that a major Google binary should be buildable in a few seconds on a single machine. The language is concurrent, garbage-collected, and requires explicit declaration of dependencies. Simple syntax and a clean type system support a number of programming styles.

For more on Go including FAQs, source code, libraries, and tutorials, please see:
http://golang.org

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  Science & Technology

[Whiskey Dick]

You've obviously never met programmers.

[Jonatan Hägglund]

Why on earth is tech talk comments spammed with porn?

[xamarmm]

Wow, sarcastic and clueless at the same time! You're just too funny.

[lennyhome]

Now I see it. You're totally right, really. I'm not being sarcastic.

[xamarmm]

Dude - I happen to know what I am talking about - I know C++, SIMULA and Go fairly well both as user as well as in depth knowledge of the runtimes of all of them - how they are implemented etc - and I know you are dead wrong in your statements - it's really that simple.

[lennyhome]

Dude.

[xamarmm]

Said the guy who claimed that SIMULA and Go are interpreted languages. A little wake-up call here - it is you who are rambling, not me.

[lennyhome]

Why do you expect me to read your ramblings? You might be out of your mind.

[xamarmm]

The 4th degree equation is much more interesting :) The solution can be found in quite an ingenious way.

[xamarmm]

(cont 1) and Go proves that while difficult it is not impossible. Java is counted as an interpreted language because while it is compiled it is compiled to run in a java virtual machine which is in turn interpreted and is as such more comparable to LISP compiling into byte-code than true compilation into machine code. However, and this might surprise you, SIMULA and go does compile into machine code so they are truly compiled languages. Get educated.

[xamarmm]

And you appear to confuse the classification of compiled languages such as C, C++, Simula, Go, FORTRAN, Pascal, Ada vs interpreted languages such as LISP, Python, Perl, Java on one hand and garbage collection or not which is two fairly independent and unrelated topics. True, interpreted languages are usually garbage collected because it is easy to that for them and compiled languages are usually not garbage collected because it is harder to garbage collect compiled languages, but SIMULA (cont 1)

[m0therfukinninja]

go looks like a rearranged C. If go becomes popular I would laught so hard if it would get OO features a couple years after it's invention