Google Go; a new programming language

[btiffin]

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/google-go-language/
http://golang.org/

Perhaps you and Gordon the Gopher are destined for greatness together? Or not ... Go is still experimental.

Cheers

[TheGuardian001]

Always good to hear about more stuff from Google, might as well at least give it a try.
Thanks for the heads up.

[DtY]

Looks interesting, I'll have to install the compiler later.
Anyone give it a try yet?

[rdrake]

Nothing beyond compiling some examples. It's pretty easy to compile.

Make sure you have build-essential and g++ installed under Linux if using Ubuntu.

[wtd]

Haven't had time to try any code in it. I'll just say that the examples weird me out. It looks enough like C/C++/Java/etc that it looks wrong, but not different enough that I can accept the differences.

[btiffin]

A little history and old guy ramble...

Go competes for the name with Go! a logic programming language ala Prolog, using the name Go! since at least 2003.

Google Go is designed by none other than Rob Pike and Ken Thompson (UNIX, UTF-8, oh so many of the things and ideas programmers use day to day) along with a few other notables. Little wonder google go works first on GNU/Linux and MacOS.

But, name use bullying aside, Go does look promising as a contender for balancing efficiency and ease of use.

But, perhaps a language will someday approach the simplicity and Zen of Forth (without need to scare coders with stacks and reverse polish), but in my humble, Go ain't it. Still more complex than programming needs to be.

Cheers

[DtY]

I think that someone should make a good go engine in Go, it's asking for it.