Google’s Go Programming Language: Taking Cloud Development By Storm
March 23, 2014
Grazed from ReadWrite. Author: Matt Asay.
What do popular projects like Docker, Heroku’s Force.com and Cloud Foundry’s (Go)Router all have in common? They’re all written in Go (a.k.a. "golang"), Google’s five-year-old programming language.
While languages like Java continue to dominate programming, new models have emerged that are better suited to modern computing, particularly in the cloud. Go, written expressly for the cloud, has been growing in popularity because of its mastery of concurrent operations and the beauty of its construction…
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By some measures, Google’s Go programming language is a non-factor in development. Google Trends, which measures general interest in a search term, hardly registers a blip for Go compared to more established programming languages like Java, C++ and JavaScript…
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