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diff --git a/content/3years.article b/content/3years.article new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6183691 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/3years.article @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +# Go turns three +10 Nov 2012 +Tags: community, birthday +Summary: Happy 3rd birthday, Go! +OldURL: /go-turns-three + +Russ Cox + +## + +The Go open source project is +[three years old today](http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-ho-lets-go.html). + +It's great to look at how far Go has come in those three years. +When we launched, Go was an idea backed by two implementations that worked on Linux and OS X. +The syntax, semantics, and libraries changed regularly as we reacted to feedback from users +and experience with the language. + +Since the open source launch, +we've been joined by +[hundreds of external contributors](https://tip.golang.org/CONTRIBUTORS), +who have extended and improved Go in myriad ways, +including writing a Windows port from scratch. +We added a package management system +[goinstall](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/8JFwR3ESjjI/cy7qZzN7Lw4J), +which eventually became the +[go command](https://golang.org/cmd/go/). +We also added +[support for Go on App Engine](https://blog.golang.org/2011/07/go-for-app-engine-is-now-generally.html). +Over the past year we've also given [many talks](https://golang.org/doc/#talks), created an [interactive introductory tour](http://tour.golang.org/) +and recently we added support for [executable examples in package documentation](https://golang.org/pkg/strings/#pkg-examples). + +Perhaps the most important development in the past year +was the launch of the first stable version, +[Go 1](https://blog.golang.org/2012/03/go-version-1-is-released.html). +People who write Go 1 programs can now be confident that their programs will +continue to compile and run without change, in many environments, +on a time scale of years. +As part of the Go 1 launch we spent months cleaning up the +[language and libraries](https://golang.org/doc/go1.html) +to make it something that will age well. + +We're working now toward the release of Go 1.1 in 2013. There will be some +new functionality, but that release will focus primarily on making Go perform +even better than it does today. + +We're especially happy about the community that has grown around Go: +the mailing list and IRC channels seem like they are overflowing with discussion, +and a handful of Go books were published this year. The community is thriving. +Use of Go in production environments has also taken off, especially since Go 1. + +We use Go at Google in a variety of ways, many of them invisible to the outside world. +A few visible ones include +[serving Chrome and other downloads](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/BNUNbKSypE0/E4qSfpx9qI8J), +[scaling MySQL database at YouTube](http://code.google.com/p/vitess/), +and of course running the +[Go home page](https://golang.org/) +on [App Engine](https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/go/overview). +Last year's +[Thanksgiving Doodle](https://blog.golang.org/2011/12/from-zero-to-go-launching-on-google.html) +and the recent +[Jam with Chrome](http://www.jamwithchrome.com/technology) +site are also served by Go programs. + +Other companies and projects are using Go too, including +[BBC Worldwide](http://www.quora.com/Go-programming-language/Is-Google-Go-ready-for-production-use/answer/Kunal-Anand), +[Canonical](http://dave.cheney.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/august-go-meetup.pdf), +[CloudFlare](http://blog.cloudflare.com/go-at-cloudflare), +[Heroku](https://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html), +[Novartis](https://plus.google.com/114945221884326152379/posts/d1SVaqkRyTL), +[SoundCloud](http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2012/07/go-at-soundcloud/), +[SmugMug](http://sorcery.smugmug.com/2012/04/06/deriving-json-types-in-go/), +[StatHat](https://blog.golang.org/2011/12/building-stathat-with-go.html), +[Tinkercad](https://tinkercad.com/about/jobs), +and +[many others](https://golang.org/wiki/GoUsers). + +Here's to many more years of productive programming in Go. |