https://www.shafiq.in/tags/programming-languages/ Recent content in Programming Languages on Shafiq Alibhai Hugo en-GB 2009-2026 All rights reserved. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:32:38 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/go-programming-language-whats-the-deal/ Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:32:38 +0000 https://www.shafiq.in/blog/go-programming-language-whats-the-deal/ <p>Google announced a new programming language called Go on November 10th. It&rsquo;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.</p> <p>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&rsquo;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.</p>