Google has announced a "milestone" update to the Go programming language with the launch of Go 1.18, which introduces native support for fuzz testing – the first major programming language to do so.

The lower-level programming language has matured enough to sport the 1.0 version number. And it's being used for real work at Google. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Does the world need a new beginner’s programming language? In the 1960s, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and ALGOL were the primary introductory programming languages. In the 1970s and 1980s, Pascal, C, ...

How to get started with this useful new programming language. You've probably heard of Go. Like any new programming language, it took a while to mature and stabilize to the point where it became ...

Go was first released as an open source programming language in 2009, and it’s had its ups and downs over the past 15 years. Although it was only released in November 2009, Go saw such a dramatic rise ...

Google's Go was 2016's programming language of the year, says the TIOBE Index, a highly-regarded resource for ranking the popularity of programming languages. While the TIOBE Index only catalogues the ...

Why Go may never get a ternary operator, algebraic types, immutable objects, default argument values, or the error handling features found in other programming ...