Go: A new system programing language

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Tue Nov 10 23:36:08 PST 2009


Justin Johansson wrote:

> Anyway I think the speaker (Rob Pike) said something along the lines that "no new systems
> programming language has been developed in the last ten years" and there was no mention
> of D (at least that I picked up).  Wonder if they ever looked at D or if Walter knows any of
> these people apart from just name?

They started the project in "late 2007", which is one year after D was
released. So I guess D is not considered a "new major systems language".

"By mid 2008 the language was mostly designed and the implementation 
(compiler, run-time) starting to work."  --from the Go Tech talk slides

--anders



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