A Unix co-creator is among those behind a language Google hopes will speed computers and programming. Today, Go becomes open-source software. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Go is a concise, simple, safe, and fast compiled language with outstanding concurrency features. Now, it has generics, too. Isn’t it time you gave Go a try? Go is an open source programming language ...

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. Although it was only released in November 2009, Go saw such a dramatic rise ...

Google software luminaries such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe that they can help boost both computing power and programmers' abilities with an open-source experimental programming language ...

Programming language Go has reached its sixth major stable release. Go was developed by Google engineers in 2007 to support faster programming on massive and high performance distributed systems. Its ...

Todd Kuehnl has been a developer for nearly 20 years and says he’s tried “pretty much every language under the sun.” But it was only recently that Kuehnl discovered Go, a programming language unveiled ...

Like all great languages, Golang has its fans and critics. Turns out, some of the reasons we love Go are the very same reasons we'd like to chuck it. In 2007, some of the programmers at Google looked ...

How to get started with this useful new programming language. You've probably heard of Go. Like any new programming language, it took a while to mature and stabilize to the point where it became ...

Does the world need a new beginner’s programming language? In the 1960s, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and ALGOL were the primary introductory programming languages. In the 1970s and 1980s, Pascal, C, ...