🔗 16 years of Go: a programming language built to last

Every November, the Go community celebrates another milestone for one of the most quietly transformative programming languages of our time.

Born at Google and released to the world in 2009, Go (or Golang) was created to tackle the complexity of building software at scale, massive codebases, distributed systems, and teams working across continents. Sixteen years later, the same principles that shaped Go’s birth continue to guide its evolution: simplicity, speed, and reliability.

As the Go team wrote in last year’s anniversary post, “Go was built for the software engineering problems of 2007, but it’s still solving the challenges of 2024, and the ones yet to come.”