Google announced a new programming language called "Go" see http://golang.org/

It is described as "expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected," which, to me, not only doesn't say much, but whatever it does say, sounds like a language that you and I already know.

Since languages are cultural, and are always evolving (and those that are not busy evolving are busy dying, to paraphrase our national bard), I seek your comments, musings, rants on this new language. Maybe we will even see an Inline::Go sooner or later.

Let's go.

Update: Names behind "Go" -- Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Ian Taylor, Russ Cox, Jini Kim and Adam Langley (see http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-ho-lets-go.html. Very impressive.

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In reply to Thoughts on "Go"? by punkish

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