Golang, the Google-backed open-source project behind Go, has released version 1.16 of the programming language with native support for Apple Mac M1 chips. Apple and Google have been collaborating to ...

The lower-level programming language has matured enough to sport the 1.0 version number. And it's being used for real work at Google. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

The Go language (Golang) has taken the eighth spot in the Tiobe language popularity index. Here's this month's report. Google’s Go language, or golang, has reached its highest position ever in the ...

Google's Go is the programming language of the year, according to the long-running Tiobe Index, a search-based ranking that gauges the popularity of top and emerging languages among developers. Rather ...

As far as we understand it, Go’s core mission is simply to make things faster for Google. "In Google we have very large software systems and we spend so long literally waiting for compilations,” ...

Born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming, Go has been in development since 2007 and was officially announced in late 2009. We’ve known that the language ...

Every computer programmer has a copious pile of opinions about how their programming language of choice could be improved. Who doesn't want more syntactic sugar, better runtime performance, and faster ...

Version 1.11 of the Go programming language was released over the weekend, just in time for GopherCon 2018, where Google announced the release of draft designs to be potentially implemented in ‘Go 2.’ ...

Google has released a brand-new programming language it hopes will solve some of the problems with existing languages such as Java and C++. At first glance, Go looks a bit like C++, but borrows some ...

Todd Kuehnl has been a developer for nearly 20 years and says he’s tried “pretty much every language under the sun.” But it was only recently that Kuehnl discovered Go, a programming language unveiled ...