http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-ho-lets-go.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/google-go-language/
http://golang.org/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s

<<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 performance and security benefits associated with using a compiled language like C++ with the speed of a dynamic language like Python.>>

Just watched the video. I'm not a proper programmer or anything so lots of it was beyond me. Clear though that lots of thought had gone into it.

Seems like Google knows no bounds.

Good name too.

Philipp, could you link my name to my blog?

Is https://launchpad.net/~danny.piccirillo correct?

Here you cannot see the implicit break. Is using returns that "break" the switch instruction. Also in PHP, C++, etc. you can use returns instead of breaks. Or I'm wrong?

Mattia, that was a bad example I picked for showing the implicit break syntax :)
I've updated the code to assign the values to a dummy variable instead of returning it.

(Is there anyone else out there who also only uses a single return at the end of a function as a readability policy to not make use of intermediate "scope breaking" commands, like goto, break, return, continue...?)

nope, it's http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/
Thanks Philipp

(DPic, thanks, linked, in a couple of past posts too!)

Ah, it doesn't automatically link them all?

.....So now we have a new development langauge tool to slow down and crush innovation.....we will continue to have to take our ideas into the temple of developers....after all theese years development languages are still unreadable to many outside of the cult.....hopefull one day this will end

I don't seem to find any mentions of Google on the site. What is the relation of Go to Google?

William, what language syntax or styke would you envision to make your life easier bringing an idea to implementation?

"Go" seems to address the issues that are bottlenecks in the development of large, complex, high performance, highly concurrent system software.

But the exclusion of exception handling is a missed opportunity. Unless exception handling is "in there from the beginning", the standard libraries won't be able to take advantage of it.

"a compiled language like C++ with the speed of a dynamic language like Python"
=> inventor of Python Guido Van Rossum works for Google
=> inventor of B programming language, ancestor of C then C++, Ken Thompson works for Google.

any other important names to add relative to this project?

Now I see post in their open source blog.

Google already hire some Go developers http://wordpress.chanezon.com/?p=1203

> Google already hire some Go developers

Five years' programming experience with Go is mandatory, I suppose :-)

oh theres the 'go nuts' group

http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts

If you're asked if you're proficient in Go, you can always say you got years of experience forgetting semicolons.

An interesting Go review by Mark Chu-Carroll, a (according to his site) PhD Computer Scientist who works for Google as a Software Engineer:

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2009/11/googles_new_language_go.php

Any mature programmer knows that good language could not prevent bad programming. Without proper software engineering, a good or best language is insignificant to readability and quality.

I would consider Go is just a kind of marketing.

Google Go has many nice syntax features, like multiple named return values or initializing variables in if statements, perhaps other future language or language updates could be inspired by this (not sure how original these are to Go, though... its most interesting approaches might be goroutines and channels?).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s