Go Programming Language - What's the Deal?
Google announced a new programming language called Go on November 10th. It’s from Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. That last name should tell you something — Ken Thompson co-designed Unix and invented the C programming language. The pitch was simple: a compiled language that feels as quick to write as a scripting language, with built-in concurrency and garbage collection. It’s aimed at the kind of problems that C was always used for, but without the pain of manual memory management and with better support for multi-core processors. ...