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The Go Programming Language

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Looks interesting, time to play...

[touch]

Thats sweet,

I am going to watch that video tonight

Will this language take off though? To early to say?

[Raynes]

Language is kind of pointless. It's nothing groundbreaking.

[Tom9729]

Interesting.

Already supports x86, x86_64, and arm. Also Ken Thompson of Unix fame is one of the guys working on it.

I wonder how much Google is using this internally?

[PsychoCoder]

Hmm, very interesting and could be quite intriguing. I'm going to change the title of this and Feature it, should provide some good conversation.

[baavgai]

I watched the video that was posted earlier. I must say, it looks interesting.

I looks more like Python or Ruby meet a compiler. The typing seems tighter than the ubiquitous duck typing. There's a strong leaning toward multi processing and thread safety.

I was very surprised it's only offered on Linux and OS X. Looks like the non windows side of google took a run at this. If they wrote Chrome in the thing or had support in Android, that would be really something.

[Raynes]

baavgai, on 11 Nov, 2009 - 04:49 PM, said:

I watched the video that was posted earlier. I must say, it looks interesting.

I looks more like Python or Ruby meet a compiler. The typing seems tighter than the ubiquitous duck typing. There's a strong leaning toward multi processing and thread safety.

I was very surprised it's only offered on Linux and OS X. Looks like the non windows side of google took a run at this. If they wrote Chrome in the thing or had support in Android, that would be really something.

Chrome in Go would be cool.

[toshiro]

After playing with Python over the summer and learning C++ this semester.... what an interesting syenthesis

[Tom9729]

Check out the Google group if you're curious, it's very active right now and there's some interesting discussion going on.

I installed it and plan to play around with it maybe this weekend.

Some things that I find disappointing just from doing a little reading:
- No shared libraries.
- No ternary operator.
- Only really works on Linux.

Things I do like:
- The "standard" library seems pretty broad, while not being too big.
- ":=" for assignment like Pascal.

Looking forward to some OpenGL bindings eventually.

[MorphiusFaydal]

I installed it on my Ubuntu 9.04 x86 laptop last night, and will be playing with it tomorrow/today. I did have the priviledge of submitting a bug report (#28, if anyone cares...) already. :-)

But I think it looks very interesting, and look forward to playing with it and seeing how it grows. Espeicially some Android support, since I now own a myTouch 3g. (Which I'm posting this from) :-P

[baavgai]

Oops. Likes like some other guy made Go! a couple of years ago. http://www.informati...cleID=221601351

I wouldn't be too put out if they did change the name. If anyone, Google should understand what a pain in the ass it is to search for something that's also an English verb. And a board game. I mean, really guys: http://www.google.co...h?q=go+examples

[KeyboardKowboy]

Tom9729, on 11 Nov, 2009 - 06:07 PM, said:

I wonder how much Google is using this internally?

The developers of the GO language have implemented it to some degree... check out this quote from an article:

"As a demonstration of the language, the developers have used it to build the Web server software that powers the project's official website. Aside from that, Go isn't used in production anywhere at Google yet. It's going to take time before it's ready for more expansive use, but Google hopes that it will eventually provide a good alternative to the C++ the company uses extensively."

[olibenu]

do we really need another language, we already speak enough as it is

[westforduk]

I think i'll give it a GO at the weekend ('scuse the pun)

[GenHornet18]

looks like a markup of C. Does Google have to have there own version of everything?

Although I would appreciate a new Google toaster..