github.com/graybobo/golang.org-package-offline-cache@v0.0.0-20200626051047-6608995c132f/x/blog/content/go-turns-three.article (about) 1 Go turns three 2 10 Nov 2012 3 Tags: community, birthday 4 5 Russ Cox 6 7 * Introduction 8 9 The Go open source project is 10 [[http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-ho-lets-go.html][three years old today]]. 11 12 It's great to look at how far Go has come in those three years. 13 When we launched, Go was an idea backed by two implementations that worked on Linux and OS X. 14 The syntax, semantics, and libraries changed regularly as we reacted to feedback from users 15 and experience with the language. 16 17 Since the open source launch, 18 we've been joined by 19 [[http://tip.golang.org/CONTRIBUTORS][hundreds of external contributors]], 20 who have extended and improved Go in myriad ways, 21 including writing a Windows port from scratch. 22 We added a package management system 23 [[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/8JFwR3ESjjI/cy7qZzN7Lw4J][goinstall]], 24 which eventually became the 25 [[http://golang.org/cmd/go/][go command]]. 26 We also added 27 [[http://blog.golang.org/2011/07/go-for-app-engine-is-now-generally.html][support for Go on App Engine]]. 28 Over the past year we've also given [[http://golang.org/doc/#talks][many talks]], created an [[http://tour.golang.org/][interactive introductory tour]] 29 and recently we added support for [[http://golang.org/pkg/strings/#pkg-examples][executable examples in package documentation]]. 30 31 Perhaps the most important development in the past year 32 was the launch of the first stable version, 33 [[http://blog.golang.org/2012/03/go-version-1-is-released.html][Go 1]]. 34 People who write Go 1 programs can now be confident that their programs will 35 continue to compile and run without change, in many environments, 36 on a time scale of years. 37 As part of the Go 1 launch we spent months cleaning up the 38 [[http://golang.org/doc/go1.html][language and libraries]] 39 to make it something that will age well. 40 41 We're working now toward the release of Go 1.1 in 2013. There will be some 42 new functionality, but that release will focus primarily on making Go perform 43 even better than it does today. 44 45 We're especially happy about the community that has grown around Go: 46 the mailing list and IRC channels seem like they are overflowing with discussion, 47 and a handful of Go books were published this year. The community is thriving. 48 Use of Go in production environments has also taken off, especially since Go 1. 49 50 We use Go at Google in a variety of ways, many of them invisible to the outside world. 51 A few visible ones include 52 [[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/BNUNbKSypE0/E4qSfpx9qI8J][serving Chrome and other downloads]], 53 [[http://code.google.com/p/vitess/][scaling MySQL database at YouTube]], 54 and of course running the 55 [[http://golang.org/][Go home page]] 56 on [[https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/go/overview][App Engine]]. 57 Last year's 58 [[http://blog.golang.org/2011/12/from-zero-to-go-launching-on-google.html][Thanksgiving Doodle]] 59 and the recent 60 [[http://www.jamwithchrome.com/technology][Jam with Chrome]] 61 site are also served by Go programs. 62 63 Other companies and projects are using Go too, including 64 [[http://www.quora.com/Go-programming-language/Is-Google-Go-ready-for-production-use/answer/Kunal-Anand][BBC Worldwide]], 65 [[http://dave.cheney.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/august-go-meetup.pdf][Canonical]], 66 [[http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare][CloudFlare]], 67 [[http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html][Heroku]], 68 [[https://plus.google.com/114945221884326152379/posts/d1SVaqkRyTL][Novartis]], 69 [[http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/07/go-at-soundcloud/][SoundCloud]], 70 [[http://sorcery.smugmug.com/2012/04/06/deriving-json-types-in-go/][SmugMug]], 71 [[http://blog.golang.org/2011/12/building-stathat-with-go.html][StatHat]], 72 [[https://tinkercad.com/about/jobs][Tinkercad]], 73 and 74 [[https://golang.org/wiki/GoUsers][many others]]. 75 76 Here's to many more years of productive programming in Go.