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Eleven Years of Go

([Development] Nov 10, 2020 17:36 UTC (Tue) (corbet))


The Go blog [1]celebrates eleven years of Go language development and looks forward to what comes next. " When the pandemic hit, we decided to pause any public announcements or launches in the spring, recognizing that everyone’s attention rightly belonged elsewhere. But we kept working, and one of our team members joined the Apple/Google collaboration on privacy-preserving exposure notifications to support contact tracing efforts all over the world. In May, that group launched the reference backend server, written in Go. "



[1] https://blog.golang.org/11years

"Bruce McKinney, author of of Hardcore Visual Basic, has announced that
he's fed up with VB and won't be writing a 3rd edition of his book. The
best quote is at the end: 'I don't need a language designed by a focus
group'."