Six years of Go

Re:Six years of Go by tptacek on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @09:19AM (#10539373)

Go is a language designed by Google people, but it is very much not the standard Google language. Most things Google does aren't done in Go.

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Re:Six years of Go by jgrahamc on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @09:26AM (#10539426)

Having said that Rob Pike told me that Go is now one of Google's "official languages".

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Re:Six years of Go by tptacek on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @09:29AM (#10539451)

... which just means developers at Go now have permission to use it, along with Python, Java, and C++, to build things, right?

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Re:Six years of Go by jgrahamc on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @09:32AM (#10539478)

I believe so.

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Re:Six years of Go by ASinclair on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:00PM (#10541023)

Not so much permission as support. Being an official language means that the core internal libraries have Go bindings.

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Re:Six years of Go by gohrt on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @12:08PM (#10540568)

what does "just" mean?

What are your company's official languages used for?

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Re:Six years of Go by saltylicorice on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @10:02AM (#10539663)

Pretty much.

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Re:Six years of Go by zaphar on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @10:38AM (#10539928)

It is a standard language at google. It gets used for things like the download service and other high throughput service which is it's sweet spot. The TensorFlow project in previous iterations predates Go's official stamp of aproval at Google I believe and stopping to rewrite is an unnecessary step. It's possible that now something like Go would be used instead.

[Former Googler around when Go got it's start]

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