Google has announced a "milestone" update to the Go programming language with the launch of Go 1.18, which introduces native support for fuzz testing – the first major programming language to do so.

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 ...

Go was first released as an open source programming language in 2009, and it’s had its ups and downs over the past 15 years. Although it was only released in November 2009, Go saw such a dramatic rise ...

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 ...

Google today announced that support for the Go programming language in the Google App Engine Platform as a Service (PaaS) is finally generally available and backed up by a service-level agreement. For ...

How to get started with this useful new programming language. You've probably heard of Go. Like any new programming language, it took a while to mature and stabilize to the point where it became ...

Does the world need a new beginner’s programming language? In the 1960s, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and ALGOL were the primary introductory programming languages. In the 1970s and 1980s, Pascal, C, ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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.’ ...