● Rob and Robert shared same office. ● Actual swivel chairs involved. ● Just like XKCD, but with lightsabers instead of swords. 00. YEAR 0: 2007-2009 GO’S ORIGINS Rob Pike is waiting 50 minutes for a C++ Program to Compile Rob Pike Robert Griesemer inventing a new programming language
01. BACKGROUND THE REASON FOR GO. What changed everything for us. Goals for Go Go was designed by and for people who write—and read and debug and maintain—large software systems. Go's purpose is not research into programming language design. Go's purpose is to make its designers' programming lives better. ELIMINATE SLOWNESS ELIMINATE CLUMSINESS IMPROVE EFFECTIVENESS IMPROVE SCALE
BRIAN W. KERNIGHAN “Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.”
YEAR 1 - 2010 Spreading the word 2010: The early years: The days when Rob, Russ, et. al. would travel around to conferences to talk about Go. 2010/03/18: Go Blog 2010/06/23: Go course 2010/09/15: Go Playground
YEAR 4 - 2013 Early Adoption Language Go 1.1 release. Race Detector. Performance improvements to GC. `map`. Scheduler has been re-written. ● 6-month release cycle ● 1st Go conference held (Tokyo Japan) - Docker release (written in Go) 2013/May Go 1.1 2013/Aug Docker released.
YEAR 5 - 2014 Getting BIG Language Go 1.3 released. Stack improvements (now allocated contiguous segments of memory), linker overhaul, 1.4 release. - Official support for Android golang.org/x/mobile. DVCS moves from mercurial to git. go generate introduced April: Gophercon, held in Denver Kuberenetes is open sourced 1st US & European conferences ● 500 contributors Kuberrnetes open-sourced in June 2014/Jun Go 1.3 2014/Jun Kubernetes open-sourced. 2014/Dec Go 1.4
YEAR 6 - 2015 COMMUNITY Go 1.5 ● Go compiler rewritten in Go ○ If you want to build go after 1.5, you need to install go 1.4.2 first. ● Garbage collector re-engineered concurrently ● Women Who Go & GoBridge born ● 1st Indian & Chinese conferences ● Experimental support for “vendoring” (using GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT) 2015/Aug Go 1.5
YEAR 7 - 2016 HTTP2 2016/02/13 Go 1.6 2016/08/15 Go 1.7 Go 1.6 ● HTTP/2 & Context introduced ● 1st Lat Am & Middle East conferences ● Top 5 most loved languages (SO) ● 1st Go user survey ● 1000 contributors ● Default “GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT” on Go 1.7 ● Context package ● Remove “GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT”
YEAR 8- 2017 1 MILLION 2017/02/16 Go 1.8 2017/08/24 Go 1.9 GO 1.8 ● Plugin: Package loading at runtime. ● `go fix` support context issue “golang.org/x/net/context” into standard library “context”. ● GC < ms pauses Go 1.9 ● Type aliases ● #1 language developers want to use (1st time) ● 1 million (estimated) users ● 13 conferences ● 1st contributor summit
- 7.1% of developers use Go in 2018 StackOverflow survey - Up from 4.2% in 2017 - 76% YoY growth of Go users - 700,000+ new users YEAR 8-9: 2017-2018 GO’S GROWTH 2017/02/16 Go 1.8 2017/08/24 Go 1.9 Go has ~1.6M users worldwide
YEAR 8-9: 2017-2018 GO’S MOMENTUM - #1 language to learn in 2018 on HackerRank (38% of responses) - #3 language for hiring posts on Hacker News - #1 Median Pay and #1 Future Language (23% of responses) on 2017 O’Reilly Dev Salary Survey 2017/02/16 Go 1.8 2017/08/24 Go 1.9 Go is in demand
YEAR 9- 2018 Modules 2018/02/16: Go 1.10 2018/08/24: Go 1.11 Go 1.10 ● Note: your need write “1.10” (not 1.10) in travis ci. ● Vgo paper, and vgo arrived. Go 1.11 ● Go modules introduced ● Port to WebAssembly ● More contributions from outside the Go team (1st time) ● 19 Go conferences ● Go new brand & logo ● Go #4 language by PR on github ● #1 lang devs intend to learn
YEAR 19- 2019 ARRIVAL 2019/Feb Go 1.12 2019/May Playground 3rd party import. 2019/July Go GDE 2019/Sep Go 1.13 Go 1.12 ● Go vet re-written ● TLS 1.3 support (Enable by tls13=1) ● “GO111MODULE” default auto Go 1.13 ● “GO111MODULE” default auto ● TLS 1.3 by default ● Error Warpping Others ● Go Developer network ● 28 Go conferences ● Major performance gains & memory reduction ● Go module mirror / checksum DB launched ● 2000 contributors (Double in 1 yr)
Map of the Go Community in 2017 Growth ● 76% YoY increase ● 700,000+ new Go developers Inclusion: “I feel welcome in the Go community” ● 400% YoY improvement for women ● 300% YoY improvement for ethnically underrepresented
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