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Some folks at google plex decided its time to develop a new programming language which would be better than C and C++ . So they came out with

The Go Programming Language

a systems programming language expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected

Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming. Programming had become too difficult and the choice of languages was partly to blame. One had to choose either efficient compilation, efficient execution, or ease of programming; all three were not available in the same mainstream language. Programmers who could were choosing ease over safety and efficiency by moving to dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript rather than C++ or, to a lesser extent, Java.

Go is an attempt to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language. It also aims to be modern, with support for networked and multicore computing. Finally, it is intended to be fast: it should take at most a few seconds to build a large executable on a single computer. To meet these goals required addressing a number of linguistic issues: an expressive but lightweight type system; concurrency and garbage collection; rigid dependency specification; and so on. These cannot be addressed well by libraries or tools; a new language was called for. [Language design FAQ]

Okay according to people over at the golang.org here is a sample hello world application

How to say hello world in Go language

You can get all the details reagarding how to install and code in Go Language at their official website – golang.org

Here is a video about the same

Well how far this language will go is a something we’ll see in the coming years. Have your say in the comments !!