Haha, try 2013. You were not around then ;)

Go 1.0 was released in 2013 (I don't even think the "official date" of March 28, 2012 is correct, or at least, nobody had heard of it).

Apple doing Swift and Google doing Go was basically in response to Node.js

> but I distinctly remember learning Go on Windows in 2009 and building web apps

Very highly doubt it

> Go 1.0 was released in 2013 (I don't even think the "official date" of March 28, 2012 is correct, or at least, nobody had heard of it).

This is a strange and ahistorical take. Go was heavily discussed in 2009 after it was first announced by Google. It didn't go four years between public announcement in 2009 and people finally learning of it in 2013.

Major themes of discussion in 2009: Does it have generics and if not, why not? How does it compare to Erlang? And why did they reuse the name from this language Go! we all just heard about five minutes ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=936544 - from the day after the language was publicly revealed.

The first two topics (generics and how it compares to Erlang) are still discussed today, though the former is now mostly complaining that it has generics instead of complaining that it doesn't have generics.

Your comment reveals you were not around then.

Go was absolutely not mainstream in 200 fucking 9. When Flash dominated the web and everyone did Wordpress for websites. Nobody (at large) did Go before they did Node.

You are pointing to extremely early design discussions you absolute twat. Get real. Anyone who was active in their career in ~2013 knows that's exactly when Go came out.

I am from San Francisco and lived here my whole life - and it wasn't the epicenter of tech then (2013) but Mountain View sure as fuck was, and it's like 45m away and I would fucking know if Go was written in 2009 and it wasn't.

You're a liar. Go away

I mixed up when Go had its first release for windows and 1.0 but that somehow means I wasn't around for that? Thanks for knowing about my life more than I do somehow? My memory is not what it used to be but that doesn't invalidate my personal experiences in 2009.

I started college in 2011 and I was telling the professors about it before it was popular, Vitess was in 2010, used in production by YouTube. JavaScript predates NodeJS even so.

I did use Linux in 2009 so I could be misremembering when it was ported, after all this was over a decade and some change ago.

Edit:

https://go.dev/blog/1year

My overall argument still stands, in production at YouTube by 2010, by 2013 we already had Docker in the works, when you say it "just came out" but many people were eyeballing Go and waiting for it to be fully on Windows.

So 2010 they were talking about the Windows port, guess I blended the years a bit, everything before my college years is all smashed together for me.

In 2010 I was doing Flash/AS3 (professionally) and Wordpress sites, but yeah, maybe.

I don't doubt it has a searchable history back to 2010.

Anyway, my memory is pretty bad, the early 2010s are a blurb and sometimes I mix up 2009 with the early 2010s. I love JavaScript and hate it, because I know how quirky it is and can be, I'm glad something like Go and Node came along, we were all stuck with Java or C# (which arguably became a lot better in recent years). Now we've got many more options.