Google announced today that they will be releasing their own programming language called, “Go”. It combines the power of C++ and Python.

The language, which has a website here, “combines the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++,” according to the blog post made by Google. To give you a sample of the code, courtesy of TechCrunch, here is a simple ‘Hello, World!’ program.

05 package main

07 import fmt “fmt” // Package implementing formatted I/O.

09 func main() {
10 fmt.Printf(”Hello, world; or Καλημέρα κόσμε; or こんにちは 世界n”);
11 }

The company listed its reasoning behind this language in the Go FAQ, found on the aforementioned site, which we’ve shown below:

• Computers are enormously quicker but software development is not faster.
• Dependency management is a big part of software development today but the “header files” of languages in the C tradition are antithetical to clean dependency analysis—and fast compilation.
• There is a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as Python and javascript.
• Some fundamental concepts such as garbage collection and parallel computation are not well supported by popular systems languages.
• The emergence of multicore computers has generated worry and confusion.