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    Why Are You Creating A New Language?: Slow Builds Uncontrolled Dependencies

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    Go was created to address problems with existing languages around concurrency, speed of development, and dependencies. It aims to be statically typed like C++ and Java but more productive, with built-in support for concurrency, garbage collection, and being portable and open source. The design draws similarities to C but improves concurrency with lightweight processes and channels, uses interfaces instead of inheritance, and aims for a simple specification. The semantics make small changes from C, Java, C++ by removing features like header files, classes, and exceptions.

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    Why Are You Creating A New Language?: Slow Builds Uncontrolled Dependencies

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    Go was created to address problems with existing languages around concurrency, speed of development, and dependencies. It aims to be statically typed like C++ and Java but more productive, with built-in support for concurrency, garbage collection, and being portable and open source. The design draws similarities to C but improves concurrency with lightweight processes and channels, uses interfaces instead of inheritance, and aims for a simple specification. The semantics make small changes from C, Java, C++ by removing features like header files, classes, and exceptions.

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    Go was created to address problems with existing languages around concurrency, speed of development, and dependencies. It aims to be statically typed like C++ and Java but more productive, with built-in support for concurrency, garbage collection, and being portable and open source. The design draws similarities to C but improves concurrency with lightweight processes and channels, uses interfaces instead of inheritance, and aims for a simple specification. The semantics make small changes from C, Java, C++ by removing features like header files, classes, and exceptions.

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    Why Are You Creating A New Language?: Slow Builds Uncontrolled Dependencies

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    Go was created to address problems with existing languages around concurrency, speed of development, and dependencies. It aims to be statically typed like C++ and Java but more productive, with built-in support for concurrency, garbage collection, and being portable and open source. The design draws similarities to C but improves concurrency with lightweight processes and channels, uses interfaces instead of inheritance, and aims for a simple specification. The semantics make small changes from C, Java, C++ by removing features like header files, classes, and exceptions.

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    Why are you creating a new language?

    Slow Builds

    Uncontrolled Dependencies

    C/C++ header files, instruction generation and optimization.

    Dependent class might not have compiled

    Java and C# compilers run in a VM.

    Or in different version

    Languages with virtual machines compile the code twice,


    sometimes even thrice.

    Cluster Computing
    problems introduced by multicore processors, networked
    systems, massive computation clusters,
    the web programming model were being worked around rather

    Fundamental concepts
    garbage collection
    parallel computation

    than addressed head-on

    Speed

    Concurrency

    Development was not speedy

    Other static language have concurrency issues

    Features

    Less Library
    Statically type
    be statically typed,
    scalable to large systems (as
    Java and C++);
    No Type Hierarchy

    More Productive
    be productive and readable,
    without too many mandatory
    keywords and repetition ("light
    on the page" like dynamic
    languages);

    Garbage Collection
    Go is fully garbage-collected
    and provides fundamental
    support.

    Portable , Open Source


    & Fast

    Concurrency Support
    support for concurrent
    execution and communication.

    Go provides a model for


    software construction that
    makes dependency analysis
    easy and avoids much of the
    overhead of C-style include files
    and libraries.

    be productive and readable,


    without too many mandatory
    keywords and repetition ("light
    on the page" like dynamic
    languages);

    Language Design

    Same as C
    Besides, changes to improve
    conciseness, simplicity, and
    safety

    Syntax
    Optional variable declaration &
    initialization through type
    inference (x := 0 ~ var x int = 0;

    Package management
    go get

    Distinctive Approach

    Built-in concurrency primitives:


    light-weight processes
    (goroutines), channels, and the
    select statement.

    Interface
    An interface system in place of
    virtual inheritance, and type
    embedding instead of nonvirtual inheritance.

    Simple Specification
    language specification simple
    enough to hold in a
    programmer's head
    omit features common to
    similar languages

    Semantics

    Small changes to C, Java, C# and C++ semantics


    Files compiled together in a package
    No header files
    No circular dependencies
    No classes or subclasses
    Interfaces are implicit (no "implements" declaration)
    Methods are declared as functions (no special location)
    No constructors or destructors
    No pointer arithmetic (struct instead)
    Segmented stacks
    No templates and exceptions
    Garbage collection (only)
    No generics

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    cake sugar um sweet
    Chocolate cake sweet
    pastry candy canes
    chocolate cake sesame
    Oreo cake lollipop sweet

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