Go 1 launched


Google has launched the first major edition of their Go programming language.

Go 1 is available as a free download for four platforms: Windows, OS X, Linux and FreeBSD.

Go 1 launched

The company spoke about Go:

The driving motivation for Go 1 is stability for its users. People who write Go 1 programs can be confident that those programs will continue to compile and run without change, in many environments, on a time scale of years. Similarly, authors who write books about Go 1 can be sure that their examples and explanations will be helpful to readers today and into the future.

Forward compatibility is part of stability. Code that compiles in Go 1 should, with few exceptions, continue to compile and run throughout the lifetime of that version, even as we issue updates and bug fixes such as Go version 1.1, 1.2, and so on.