Three engineers, Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, at Google in 2007 were tired.Three engineers at Google, Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson were tired in 2007. Annoyed with waiting for C++ code to compile. Frustrated with the messiness that seeped into big code bases. Frustrated by the limitations of languages on their size and concurrency requirements of today's infrastructure.
So they built their own.
This is the bold idea that was born of Go: What if there was a language as fast as C, as readable as Python, and as concurrent as possible from the ground up? It was released as open source in 2009 and version 1.0 came in 2012 and has become one of the most impactful programming languages of the last 20 years.
Go's goal is to "provide for something that is easy to program but also efficient and safe like a statically typed, compiled language.
Go by the numbers
