Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language that was created at Google and publicly announced as an open-source project in November 2009. It was designed by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson, who wanted a language that was simple to read and fast to compile, with built-in support for concurrent programming. Go has a garbage collector, a small set of keywords and lightweight units of concurrency called goroutines. Version 1.0 was released in 2012, and the language has been widely adopted for servers, networking tools and cloud infrastructure, and underlies projects such as Docker and Kubernetes. It is often referred to as Golang to make it easier to find on the web.
Before and after
- 27 September 20092009 German federal election
- 1 October 2009'Ardi', Ardipithecus ramidus, is announced
- 3 October 2009Founding of Organization of Turkic States
- 27 October 2009Release of League of Legends
- 10 November 2009Creation of Go
- 28 November 2009Construction of Moses Mabhida Stadium
- 14 December 2009Construction of Cape Town Stadium
- 14 December 2009Launch of Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
- 16 December 2009Release of Avatar
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The era
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