# The Go Programming Language

<http://golang.org/>

- Host: [golang.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/golang.org/)
- Saved: November 10, 2009 (2009-11-11T02:42:52Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ac48772220bc/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/ac48772220bc.json

## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

New systems level programming language from Google (but, judging from the copyright statements, not an official Google project). Go has built-in garbage collection, a simpler syntax than Java or C++, fast compilation times and excellent performance — and it was designed with concurrency in mind. Interesting and ambitious, to say the least.


Among many interesting details, it ships with a utility named gofmt, which formats Go source code according to a standardized style — which standardized style uses tabs, not spaces (hooray). Go uses a Pascal-style “:=” assignment operator for initializing values (hooray). And, regarding my own tiny sliver of expertise, the Regexp library offers only a crude regular expression syntax (boo).



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## Facts

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://golang.org/