Go
- Byname:
- Golang
- Related Topics:
- computer programming language
Go, software company TIOBE, which publishes an index that measures programming-language popularity.
“Builds were taking 45 minutes. I considered that painful. When builds take that long, you have a lot of time to think about what you might make better.”
—Rob Pike on C++, GopherCon 2014
A group of Google engineers had the idea to create Go in September 2007. At the time software engineer Rob Pike was working on a Google program that relied on the language context of Google’s programs.
Pike and fellow engineers Internet.
The engineers relied heavily on using curly braces, which are used to group together related code statements. Most other languages, including cloud infrastructure.”
The original URL for Go’s website was golang.org, and the nickname “Golang” quickly caught on across the Internet. The software company JetBrains, after conducting a developer survey in 2020, estimated that 1.1 million professional developers were using Go as their primary language, with another 1.6 million using it for secondary purposes.