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,” ...

Born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming, Go has been in development since 2007 and was officially announced in late 2009. We’ve known that the language ...

Google has announced a "milestone" update to the Go programming language with the launch of Go 1.18, which introduces native support for fuzz testing – the first major programming language to do so.

Google launched Go exactly 10 years ago, in November 2009, offering developers a new programming language that was optimized for multicore processors and which could exploit multithreading. To ...

So far, we have talked about several programming languages, but until now, Go Programming Language, or Golang, has yet to fall into the discussion. Yes, it is not the most used of the languages, but ...

Google builds software in ways that software was never built before. It builds software that runs across thousands of machines, spread across a worldwide network of computer data centers---a setup ...

Google announced the first stable release of its new programming language -- dubbed "Go" -- on Wednesday, providing an initial base of support for new projects and . Binaries have been released for , ...

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 ...

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 ...

Go, a lower-level programming language that Google hopes will improve upon C, should be finished in a few months. Some changes are arriving now. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Web applications may one day surpass desktop applications in function and usability — if developers have more programming languages to choose from, according to a Google engineer. “You should have ...