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[olemars]

In case anyone was in doubt regarding Google's ultimate goal of world conquest - a couple of days ago they released their own programming language called Go.

http://golang.org/

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.

It's seems to be kind of based on C/C++, although the syntax is very different and it has some very noticeable differences. No function or operator overloading for instance, nor real classes (uses interfaces instead). No implicit type conversion. Strings are constants after creation and can't be changed. Multithreading is integrated in the language as "go-routines" (catchy), which seems very inspired by Stackless Python's tasklets. A bunch of other things.
No sign of adsense integration though, but I'm sure it's just around the corner.

Will be interesting to see how this one pans out. It does indeed address some of the nastier quirks and pitfalls of C++, while still being a proper compiled language and not just interpreted like python and C#. I'm not sure if it brings enough goodies to the table to win over a lot of programmers though, it is after all just another programming language.

[zchris13]

How does this mean they want to take over the world?

[Jreengus]

How does this mean they want to take over the world?

Well they've already taken over my uni, pretty much everything internet related is powered by Google. Except the browser surprisingly enough, we get to choose form IE or Firefox

Anyhow I'm just waiting for them to release an operating system...

[Eidalac]

Strings are constants after creation and can't be changed.

Madness.

MADNESS!

_{this is sparta}

Seriously though... WTF is up with that concept...

[Aqizzar]

Seriously, that's like, half the purpose of strings, to type things in and recall that later.  What the fuck.

Anyhow I'm just waiting for them to release an operating system...

A matter of time I'm sure.  However, Firefox beat them to it.  There's a Mozilla-Firefox operating system designed for IT guys fixing broken computers, which can run entirely off a jumpdrive.

[olemars]

Anyhow I'm just waiting for them to release an operating system...

Next week

[Aqizzar]

That included, it'll be an OS, a coding language, a browser, adsense, website functions, and GPS integration.

Does Google invest/make anything not computer related?  Because they're starting to sound like Morgan Industries.

[Aldaris]

I can vaguely remember something about them going into the telecom industry. But once they take over microsofts market dominance and get a foothold in the gaming industry, I think they'll diversify into things like law enforcement, making their inevitable world conquest that much easier.
(Or firefighters, secretly training them in the use of flamethrowers... That is a scary though in combination with Google's endless records of everything.)

[qwertyuiopas]

What??

They can identify a disguised or cloaked spy without having to spam bullets???


Be very afraid of them, and never fight them on dustbowl, etc.

[eerr]

Ahhh!

A Go Routine is multithreading you don't have to worry about.

Caveat Emptor: Make sure variables are not modified out of sync. Like Toady writing a pathfinder that allows simultaneous terrain edits.

Especially made for loops and stuff.

[Duke 2.0]

 "Please, try our Google line of computers. We can bundle it with a Google brand computer peripherals package and perhaps even get the Google internet service as part of the deal. Will you need help loading it into your GoogleCar?"

[olemars]

I'm just waiting for Google BrainWave. Searches, IM and adsense straight on the visual cortex.

What I find fascinating with google is that they're a multi billion dollar juggernaut with thousands of employees, but they're not actually selling anything.

Ahhh!

A Go Routine is multithreading you don't have to worry about.

Caveat Emptor: Make sure variables are not modified out of sync. Like Toady writing a pathfinder that allows simultaneous terrain edits.

Especially made for loops and stuff.

Yeah, the goroutines and channels remind me a lot of the microthreads/tasklets from stackless python, and could quickly prove to be the most useful part of the language. And the array slices reminds me of Fortran (just less powerful).

Appears Go has gotten some attention too, the mailing list has been up for three days and there are already ~1600 messages there, and none of them are viagra spam.

[eerr]

"Please, try our Google line of computers. We can bundle it with a Google brand computer peripherals package and perhaps even get the Google internet service as part of the deal. Will you need help loading it into your GoogleCar?"

Cheer for anyone who beats microsoft on quality.
I DEMAND IT.

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

"Please, try our Google line of computers. We can bundle it with a Google brand computer peripherals package and perhaps even get the Google internet service as part of the deal. Will you need help loading it into your GoogleCar?"

Cheer for anyone who beats microsoft on quality.
I DEMAND IT.

But, but, I love my Firefox~ And Ubuntu~ And... and, XP for playing games~

[zchris13]

What's with the tildes?