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July 07, 2010, Wednesday

The Go Programming Language

6:45 PM, Suspenders Restaurant
111 Broadway in Manhattan

Go is …
… simple
package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
fmt.Printf("Hello, 世界n")
}
… fast
Go compilers produce fast code fast. Typical builds take a fraction of a 
second yet the resulting programs run nearly as quickly as comparable C 
or C++ code.
… safe
Go is type safe and memory safe. Go has pointers but no pointer 
arithmetic. For random access, use slices, which know their limits.
… concurrent
Go promotes writing systems and servers as sets of lightweight 
communicating processes, called goroutines, with strong support from the 
language. Run thousands of goroutines if you want—and say good-bye to 
stack overflows.
… fun
Go has fast builds, clean syntax, garbage collection, methods for any 
type, and run-time reflection. It feels like a dynamic language but has 
the speed and safety of a static language. It`s a joy to use.
… open source

Mark Chu-Carroll is a software engineer at Google, who is utterly 
obsessed with programming languages. He’s been working on software 
development tools for close to 20 years. In his free time, he writes the 
blog Good Math/Bad Math at scienceblogs.com.