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+Six years of Go
+10 Nov 2015
+
+Andrew Gerrand
+adg@golang.org
+
+* Six years of Go
+
+Six years ago today the Go language was released as an open source project.
+Since then, more than 780 contributors have made over 30,000 commits to the
+project's 22 repositories. The open source ecosystem is still growing, with
+GitHub reporting more than 90,000 Go repositories.
+And, offline, more Go events and user groups continue to pop up
+[[https://blog.golang.org/gophercon2015][around]]
+[[http://blog.golang.org/gouk15][the]]
+[[http://blog.golang.org/gopherchina][world]].
+
+.image 6years-gopher.png
+
+In August we [[https://blog.golang.org/go1.5][released Go 1.5]], the most
+significant release since Go 1. It features a completely
+[[https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#gc][redesigned garbage collector]] that makes
+the language more suitable for latency-sensitive applications, marks the
+transition from a C-based compiler tool chain to one
+[[https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#c][written entirely in Go]], and also includes
+ports to [[https://golang.org/doc/go1.5#ports][new architectures]], notably
+better support for ARM processors (the chips that power most smartphones).
+These improvements make Go better suited to a broader range of tasks, a trend
+that we hope will continue over the coming years.
+
+We also continued to boost developer productivity through better tools, with
+the introduction of the [[https://golang.org/cmd/trace/][execution tracer]] and the
+"[[https://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Show_documentation_for_package_or_symbol][go doc]]"
+command, as well as more enhancements to our various
+[[https://talks.golang.org/2014/static-analysis.slide#16][static analysis tools]].
+We are also working on an
+[[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/Golang-nuts/8oCSjAiKXUQ][official Go plugin for Sublime Text]],
+with better support for other editors in the pipeline.
+
+Early next year we will release more improvements in Go 1.6, including built in
+HTTP/2 support for Go HTTP servers and clients, an official package vendoring
+approach, support for blocks in text and HTML templates, a memory sanitizer
+that checks both Go and C/C++ code, and the usual assortment of other
+improvements and fixes.
+
+This is sixth time we have had the pleasure of writing a birthday blog post for
+Go, and we would not be doing it if not for the wonderful and passionate people
+in our community. The Go team would like to thank everyone who has contributed
+code, written an open source library, authored a blog post, helped a new
+gopher, or just given Go a try. Without you Go would not be as complete,
+useful, or successful as it is today. Thank you, and celebrate!