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diff --git a/content/6years.article b/content/6years.article index 5617d78..1694dfd 100644 --- a/content/6years.article +++ b/content/6years.article @@ -8,12 +8,11 @@ adg@golang.org 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 ecosystem is still growing, with GitHub -reporting more than 90,000 Go repositories. -And, offline, new Go events and user groups continue to pop up -[[https://blog.golang.org/gophercon2015][around]] +project's 22 repositories. The ecosystem continues to grow, with GitHub +reporting more than 90,000 Go repositories. And, offline, we see new Go events +and user groups pop up [[https://blog.golang.org/gophercon2015][around]] [[http://blog.golang.org/gouk15][the]] -[[http://blog.golang.org/gopherchina][world]]. +[[http://blog.golang.org/gopherchina][world]] with regularity. .image 6years-gopher.png @@ -37,15 +36,17 @@ 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 HTTP/2 -support for [[https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/][net/http]] servers and clients, +Early next year we will release more improvements in Go 1.6, including an +[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form][SSA]]-based +optimizing compiler back end, HTTP/2 support for +[[https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/][net/http]] servers and clients, an official package vendoring mechanism, 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, +This is the sixth time we have had the pleasure of writing a birthday blog post +for Go, and we would not be doing so 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! |