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Google's "Go" programming language to be released 2012, another for the pile

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Google's "Go" programming language is being prepped for a 1.0 debut in early 2012.
 
The language is similar to C/C++, but "modernized," said Google spokespeople. The focus is on optimizing multi-core usage, garbage collection, and compiling for several different operating systems and processors. (Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Windows - Intel, AMD, and ARM chips)
 
Garbage collection was invented by the late John McCarthy. The concept is to free up memory of objects/data that is no longer necessary for the executed program to function. (Even when they are gone, they are still influential.)
 
The experimental "Go runtime" will come along with the release. It gives the user support for Google's App Engine API. In other words, backend support and database index control. Google is claiming that support for each version of Go will last for years, forcing developer anxiety a little lower. Also, "Gofix" has also been announced to help migrate programs between version.
 
Google stated, "If Go 1 is to be long-lasting, it is important that we plan, announce, implement, and test these changes as part of the preparation of Go 1, rather than delay them until after it is released and thereby introduce divergence that contradicts our goals... We are explicitly resisting any efforts to design new language features 'by committee.' "
 
What we really need, a rushed programming language for the multitude we are required to learn.
 
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The Gopher mascot is available in plush and toy versions too, at the Google store.
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  • Really, another language?

    Enough already.  I cannot count the number of new "improved" languages I have seen over the last 40 years.  None have fulfilled their promise, all have newer and even bigger bugs and security holes, and all will be defended to the death by those who jump on new languages faster than fleas on a dog.

     

    SIGH!

     

    DAB

  • in reply to DAB

    DAB,

     

    That is what I thought too. However, with the enormity of Google backing a language, it may come with equally enormous support.

     

    We all need a little help with our projects. In many cases, we just seek to find someone who has accomplished the same task and build upon it.

     

    Imagine a database of software that eliminates the "re-invent the wheel" of development.

    Microsoft's DirectX software helps game developers about having to develop how to handle graphics in many ways. Perhaps Google can do the same for anything a developer needs to make.

     

    Within a year we all should know how it pans out.

     

    E

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  • in reply to DAB

    DAB,

     

    That is what I thought too. However, with the enormity of Google backing a language, it may come with equally enormous support.

     

    We all need a little help with our projects. In many cases, we just seek to find someone who has accomplished the same task and build upon it.

     

    Imagine a database of software that eliminates the "re-invent the wheel" of development.

    Microsoft's DirectX software helps game developers about having to develop how to handle graphics in many ways. Perhaps Google can do the same for anything a developer needs to make.

     

    Within a year we all should know how it pans out.

     

    E

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  • in reply to Eavesdropper

    Hi E,

     

    Unfortunately, that was the same promise made for Java.  Now that Oracle owns it, I am not sure that Java will remain as "open" as it once was.

     

    At this point, I think Google is trying to be the next Java as Oracle slowly squeezes everyone else out of the current "open" Java.  For that reason alone, I may look at it.

     

    The key to software reuse will center on the verification by Google that the code runs as advertised and has no hidden malicious software embedded within it.  Next, they need to provide good documentation standards before the software can be added to the library.  If they leave it open for anyone to post, then it becomes a "User Beware" site.  I wonder if they realize how difficult the repository will be to maintain?

     

    If they do not apply the resources, then I fear that it will die a quick death.  Which is probably better than watching Oracle slowly squeeze the life out of Java.

     

    Just my Opinion.

    DAB