The lack of support for generic programming in initial versions of Go drew considerable criticism. In April 2018, the original logo was replaced with a stylized GO slanting right with trailing streamlines. Both Go and Go Mono adhere to the DIN 1450 standard by having a slashed zero, lowercase l with a tail, and an uppercase I with serifs. Both fonts adhere to the WGL4 character set and were designed to be legible with a large x-height and distinct letterforms.

Go is a humanist sans-serif resembling Lucida Grande, and Go Mono is monospaced. In November 2016, the Go and Go Mono fonts were released by type designers Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes specifically for use by the Go project. The design, by Renée_French, borrowed from a c. The Gopher mascot was introduced in 2009 for the open source launch of the language. Mascot of Go programming language is a Gopher shown above. Ī third-party source-to-source compiler, GopherJS, compiles Go to JavaScript for front-end web development. With GCC the combination is gccgo with LLVM the combination is gollvm.

gofrontend, a frontend to other compilers, with the libgo library.

Google's self-hosting 'gc' compiler toolchain, targeting multiple operating systems and WebAssembly.

It is often referred to as Golang because of its former domain name,, but its proper name is Go. It is syntactically similar to C, but with memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-style concurrency. Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. Go, Assembly language (gc) C++ (gofrontend)ĭragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Solaris, WindowsĬ, Oberon-2, Limbo, Active Oberon, communicating sequential processes, Pascal, Oberon, Smalltalk, Newsqueak, Modula-2, Alef, APL, BCPL, Modula, occam

Inferred, static, strong, structural, nominal

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