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Google creates programming language

That is a second news about Google in the row, however i think this is something that will interest every developer.

Google created programming language. While it is still in a beta stage and even Google is not using it on production servers, it is already released to the public as an open source product and can be downloaded anytime.

New programming language is called Go, it seems like there are two reasons for this name. First and obvious is that is the part of the “Google” word, second the idea behind this language is that it should be: fast, simple, safe, concurrent, fun and of course open source.

As for the language it self, it seems like Go syntax is pretty similar to C++ or Java. So the question is: do we need yet another programming language? Go developers claim we do. Rob Pike principal software engineer at Google said

We developed Go because we had become a bit frustrated with how difficult software development has become in the last 10 years or so

In the essence Go aims to simplify application development. However it is not possible as for now, mainly because there are almost none libraries. Google waits for open source developers to create some. Want to give it a shot?