[macosxnerd101]

This week's challenge is Google's Go.

Go is a langugae with syntax similar to C, but allows for more concise code. It was designed to focus on modular and flexible programming. Go also supports extremely fast compiling time with garbage collection. Concurrency is another strong-suit of Go, with the select and go keywords for concurrent programming, as well as features for cross-thread communications.

Getting Started
Go Homepage

[Daniel.A]

macosxnerd101, on 30 December 2010 - 07:19 PM, said:

This week's challenge is Google's Go.

Go is a langugae with syntax similar to C, but allows for more concise code. It was designed to focus on modular and flexible programming. Go also supports extremely fast compiling time with garbage collection. Concurrency is another strong-suit of Go, with the select and go keywords for concurrent programming, as well as features for cross-thread communications.

Getting Started
Go Homepage

What exactly is the challenge? just learn the language?

[macosxnerd101]

Exactly. Spend some time picking up the language and submit something you wrote in it. It's not so much a competition, but an initiative to expose people to new languages and technologies.

[Tuishimi]

macosxnerd101, on 30 December 2010 - 07:19 PM, said:

This week's challenge is Google's Go.

Go is a langugae with syntax similar to C, but allows for more concise code. It was designed to focus on modular and flexible programming. Go also supports extremely fast compiling time with garbage collection. Concurrency is another strong-suit of Go, with the select and go keywords for concurrent programming, as well as features for cross-thread communications.

Getting Started
Go Homepage

I've wanted to play with go... but isn't it a pain to get working at all on Windows? AFAIK, it doesn't build with all features.

[Daniel.A]

macosxnerd101, on 31 December 2010 - 08:01 AM, said:

Exactly. Spend some time picking up the language and submit something you wrote in it. It's not so much a competition, but an initiative to expose people to new languages and technologies.

is it an OOP language? and what is it primarily used to make? web apps or executable programs?

[Raynes]

It's a systems programming language, but so is C. That should be enough to tell you that, if Go gets more popular, it'll be used for pretty much everything. Almost no languages outside of PHP and various other explicitly web-related languages are actually limited to any single domain. The majority of languages are useful for a wide variety of tasks, and aren't 'primarily' used to make any one thing.

Go is not an object oriented language in the traditional sense, although it does offer some similar facilities. Refer to the FAQ: http://golang.org/do...iented_language

[November-06]

Does go have any benefits or advantage from other programming languages aside from being an open source project?

[Adak]

Go is:

Like C, but it compiles 10X faster, has automatic garbage collection, and concurrent processing is smooth as silk.

Like C++, it has OOP's most valuable parts, but none of C++'s fal-der-awl nonsense. Go's syntax has a very structured, format - it's minimal, but Go makes less, into more.

Go is being created by several people, but two I know of are geniuses imo: Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.

Thompson is one of the creators of the B programming language, and the programmer of a World Champion chess player machine.

Pike is the creator of Limbo, a language similar to Go, for the Inferno operating system.

They're still working out some issues, but I'm very excited about Go. It already is running at 75% of the speed of C.

This is the next language I want to work with.

[Herks]

It would be interest to learn such fancy programming language.