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Go (programming language)

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Go (often referred to as Golang)¹${}^{:2}$ is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is statically typed and compiled. Originally designed in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, Go was publicly announced in November 2009,²[^4] and is developed by Google[^5] and community contributors. Go has a simple syntax similar to C++,³ as well as garbage collection, structural typing,[^9] CSP -style concurrency,⁴ and a broad standard library.¹${}^{:i,4,12}$

There are two major implementations:

• The original, self-hosting⁵ compiler toolchain, initially developed inside Google;⁶
• A frontend written in C++, called gofrontend,⁷ originally a GCC frontend, providing gccgo, a GCC-based Go compiler;⁸ later extended to also support LLVM, providing an LLVM-based Go compiler called gollvm.⁹

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Footnotes

1. Bin Uzayr, Sufyan (2023). GoLang: The Ultimate Guide. CRC Press. doi:10.1201/9781003309055. ISBN 9781003309055. Archived from the original on August 21, 2026. Retrieved August 20, 2026. ↩ ↩²

2. Kincaid, Jason (November 10, 2009). “Google’s Go: A New Programming Language That’s Python Meets C++”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 18, 2010. ↩

3. “Go Introduction”. www.w3schools.com. Retrieved November 23, 2024. ↩

4. Metz, Cade (May 5, 2011). “Google Go boldly goes where no code has gone before”. The Register. Archived from the original on July 28, 2025. ↩

5. “Go 1.5 Release Notes”. Retrieved January 28, 2016. The compiler and runtime are now implemented in Go and assembler, without C. ↩

6. “The Go programming language”. GitHub. Retrieved November 1, 2024. ↩

7. “gofrontend”. GitHub. Retrieved November 1, 2024. ↩

8. “gccgo”. Retrieved November 1, 2024. gccgo, the GNU compiler for the Go programming language ↩

9. “Gollvm”. Retrieved November 1, 2024. Gollvm is an LLVM-based Go compiler. ↩