Google Unleashes Go: A Brand New Systems Programming Language

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 12, 2009 2:07 PM EDT
OStatic; By Joe Brockmeier
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Not content to dominate search and online advertising, two operating systems, and cross-platform browser, Google is now getting into the programming language business as well. Yesterday Google announced Go a brand-new systems programming language. Why does Google need Go? According to the FAQ on the site, Google saw a gap in the existing systems programming languages, and the company decided it was "worth trying again with a new language" that has taken ideas from other systems programming languages as well as scripting languages like Python and JavaScript.

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