When it first came out, I tried to download, compile, and test Google's new programming language, Go. It seems like an interesting idea, it merges Python and C++. It doesn't have a lot of packages and files to #include like C++, but like C++ it is a fully compiled language. There aren't any semicolons to be seen, like Python.
However, I do have to question its usefulness. Sure, its great to make things for the sake of making them. Its a great geek thing to do, doing something to say it can be done. However, what is the business need or the use case for this new language? As far as I can tell, it can't be used to develop graphical applications, nor can it make network-aware applications. As I further explore (when I have free time) it maybe it'll show to be more useful. However, it supports Unicode nicely:
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
fmt.Printf("Hello, 世界\n")
}
In the meantime, all you Mac OS X users feel free to download a binary, if you don't feel like compiling it for yourself. It only supports Intel CPUs and is 64-bit. Download.
