One step closer to world domination

Google came one step closer to world domination yesterday when they announced their new programming language, Go, a language claiming to be nearly as fast as C and C++ while being both type safe and memory safe and built in functionality for writing lightweight communicating processes called ‘goroutines.’

Definitely worth checking out, if at least to be the first nerd on your street to have built something with it.

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One Response to “One step closer to world domination”

  • tr8dr Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 8:43 am

    I have to say that I am deeply disappointed with “go” as a new language. It borrows too much from C for my taste. Some of the points Pike raised are good though, particularly about the issues with object hierarchies.

    The emergent theme these days (outside of the academic world) is functional programming languages or imperative languages blending with the functional paradigm. I’d like to see more innovation in that direction, particularly as a quant.

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