As far as we understand it, Go’s core mission is simply to make things faster for Google. "In Google we have very large software systems and we spend so long literally waiting for compilations,” ...

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 about ...

Every computer programmer has a copious pile of opinions about how their programming language of choice could be improved. Who doesn't want more syntactic sugar, better runtime performance, and faster ...

Google today announced that support for the Go programming language in the Google App Engine Platform as a Service (PaaS) is finally generally available and backed up by a service-level agreement. For ...

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 ...

Most developers who use the Google-backed Go programming language still love using it, but lament the missing features and choice of libraries available with Python. The Go team surveyed 11,840 ...

Uncommon programming languages — including Go, Rust, Nim, and DLang — are becoming favorites among malware authors seeking to bypass security defenses or address weak spots in their development ...

Lots of developers really want to learn Go, a programming language for large systems created by Google, meanwhile most developers are sick of attending meetings, and most of those working at ...

Google has released a brand-new programming language it hopes will solve some of the problems with existing languages such as Java and C++. At first glance, Go looks a bit like C++, but borrows some ...

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 ...