Google Go Programming Language (aka Golang) Unveiled

When Google does something, it seems to be great. Let’s sum them up a little, shall we ? The search engine is undoubtedly the best, Gmail is among the best free email servers, Google Maps is great, the Android OS is all the hype now in the smartphone market and the list could go on.

Google decided that the computer world needed a new programming language, one that made it easier to create new software and that will take advantage of the exponential computing power today’s systems have compared to what they used a decade ago. So they have created their own programming language.

Google Go, as it is called is an open source programming language that takes a whole new approach to object oriented programming and that is designed to help programmers in their software creation by making their job… easier.

At the moment, Google Go is only in an experimental phase, but with big names behind it such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson (he is only one of many), the big expectations seem to be properly founded.

Google Go is similar to C/C++, but implies a huge list of new ideas and modern features. The Google Go programming language will also be a versatile one and it could be used inside a Web browser.

So there you have it: it’s open source, it will try to make programming easier and software faster by using the multicore features in today’s processors. With the rate of success Google had with its new eneavors, it’s quite likely that Google Go will become, over the years, as important and as commonly used as Java is today. For more information visit the official Google Go “golang” website here.