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Go Alive

Go
KindProgramming language
Appeared2009
StatusAlive
CreatorPike, Thompson & Griesemer / Google
FamilyC
Sourcego.dev ↗

CSP channels meet C syntax with a garbage collector — Bell Labs' third act: the language that ate infrastructure.

Influenced by C occam Oberon
Created by Ken Thompson Rob Pike Google

Pike, Thompson, and Griesemer's Go (2009) — 'C for the 21st century' at Google — chose deliberately few features: goroutines, channels, fast compilation, and no generics for a decade.\n\nIt owns cloud infrastructure — Docker, Kubernetes, most of the modern stack — and its error-handling debate is the industry's recurring argument.

Sources

  1. go.dev/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)