The Go project reaches a major milestone: Go 1
By the Go team
In November 2009 Google announced the
Go project,
a new open source programming language. Since then more than 200 outside contributors have
made thousands of contributions to the code, tests, and documentation. The open source
community has been essential to Go's success.
It is a great pleasure to announce today that the Go project has reached a stable point we are
calling
Go
version 1, or Go 1 for short. Go 1 is the result of months of work refining the
specification, improving the implementation, increasing portability and re-working and
adjusting the standard library. Go 1 offers compatibility for future growth: programs
written to the Go 1 specification will work dependably for years to come even as Go continues
to develop.
The benefits of Go 1 are also available to Google App Engine developers, as Go 1 is now the
standard
Go
runtime on Google App Engine.
Go 1 is a consistent, portable, dependable base upon which to build programs, projects, and
businesses. To learn more about Go 1, hear what the gophers have to say at the
Go blog. For
more information about Go in general, visit
golang.org, which has documentation, references,
articles, and even an interactive
tour of the
language.
When he's not traveling the
world, the Go Gopher lives in Paris with his collection of medals won at
international staring competitions. He enjoys "The Wire" and any movies by Werner
Herzog.
Posted by Scott Knaster,
Editor
