Google hopes to remake programming with Go
Found on CNet News on Monday, 09 November 2009
Google software luminaries such as Unix co-creator Ken Thompson believe that they can help boost both computing power and programmers' abilities with an experimental programming language project called Go.
"We found some of those problems to be frustrating and decided that the only way to address them was linguistically," said Rob Pike, a principal software engineer working on Go. "We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better."
Een with Google pushing it doesn't guarantee success. Just look at Chrome: even though Google tells you constantly to switch to this "amazing" browser, its market share is around 2%, depending on the sources. When introducing a new language, you don't just simply give people a new software where they can click around in; developers have to switch from the language they are familiar with to something new.