Google has a new programming language

dagle · 2009-11-30 09:33:40

Anikom15 wrote:

It looks like C, but smells of Java. A wolf in sheep's clothing. Not trying to put Java down, but that's what I notice.
I reckon this'll be like C# in terms of popularity.

Not really? I think more like haskell with a C syntax (but without tuples, lists or generics (they might come soon)). There are no classes or dynamic boxing etc. It's just datatypes binded to functions.

shock · 2009-12-08 05:52:47

There is no windows port and language offers nothing new. most of the things are already there in c,cpp. what's new ? in case i missed something.

marvin · 2010-05-03 17:09:56

There is a Windows port, and the language offers many new things (and most specially, very unique and careful selection of existing well known features): goroutines, channels, interfaces, 'static duck typing', extremely fast compilation, ...

cmays90 · 2010-05-07 19:44:03

Thanks for bumping this necrotic thread. I was looking for the general feelings of Arch users, and it seems that "go" is excluded from the forums search

Anyways, I have been playing with it, and they need much better documentation for it to actually take off (I have been struggling with it, and picking up new languages is a hobby of mine).

On the whole (outside of the ridiculous name, see Issue 9, and try GOOGLING go.........), it is not a half bad language, and it seems to be growing by leaps and bounds.

And Google allows its programmers to spend 20% of their time working on "side projects". I read somewhere that these "20% projects" now result in over half of Google's products, including GMail, Google Docs, and Google Books. Most of the rest came to Google via acquisition, like YouTube.

I am currently debating whether I should start writing a new project written in this (the sole purpose would be for fun).

@marvin
Read your signature, and that reminded me of my most recent Comp-Sci project where the prof gave us about 3000 lines of code from which we were suppose to implement Dijkstra's algorithm.... Ended up deleting some 2000 lines and rewriting another 500 just to simplify things. Needless to say, I think I had the least buggy code at the end of the day o:)

undefined · 2010-05-08 19:37:19

Come on,... enough with creating new programming languages. I feel one of those "If you want to work on any google product, you got to do it on golang" thing coming along in the near future.

Galera · 2010-05-08 22:39:23

undefined wrote:

Come on,... enough with creating new programming languages. I feel one of those "If you want to work on any google product, you got to do it on golang" thing coming along in the near future.

I don't recall too many "new" languages (as a matter of fact I recall none).
To me seems like a good idea, never the less I'm still just a newbie to all this stuff.

benharminson · 2010-05-21 11:00:57

Interesting share. I loved the name of that language which is "Go". Google's programming language called "GO" LOL. Apart from jokes it simly looks like sister concern of Java and not so difficult to learn for programming people. I am going to try it out. Thanks for bringing something new in my knowledge.

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