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Well it is one of my favorite people in the whole wide world GOOGLE.  Seriously if you don’t know yet I do love all things Google.  Except I cheat with have an iPhone but that may even change in the future.

Now Google is coming out with a new programming language they call Go.  They say it is a combination of Python meets C++.  Claiming compile speeds of seconds for even large programs Go is going to change the way people program.

Why would they do all this?  Well here is a clip from their FAQ.

No major systems language has emerged in over a decade, but over that time
the computing landscape has changed tremendously. There are several trends:

• Computers are enormously quicker but software development is not faster.
• Dependency management is a big part of software development today but the
  “header files” of languages in the C tradition are antithetical to clean
  dependency analysis—and fast compilation.
• There is a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of
  Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as
  Python and JavaScript.
• Some fundamental concepts such as garbage collection and parallel computation
  are not well supported by popular systems languages.
• The emergence of multicore computers has generated worry and confusion.

We believe it’s worth trying again with a new language, a concurrent,
garbage-collected language with fast compilation. Regarding the points above:

• It is possible to compile a large Go program in a few seconds on a single computer.
• Go provides a model for software construction that makes dependency
  analysis easy and avoids much of the overhead of C-style include files and
  libraries.
• Go’s type system has no hierarchy, so no time is spent defining the
  relationships between types. Also, although Go has static types the language
  attempts to make types feel lighter weight than in typical OO languages.
• Go is fully garbage-collected and provides fundamental support for
  concurrent execution and communication.
• By its design, Go proposes an approach for the construction of system
  software on multicore machines.

So since I call myself a Google Fanboy I think I am going to go and see what I can make with Google Go.

Also your thoughts and opinions on this feel free to leave some comments.

The Go Programming Language.