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
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
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
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.
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
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
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”
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
- 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
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
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
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)
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