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Mar 2014
29m 27s

An Introduction to the Go Programming la...

SCOTT HANSELMAN
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Andrew Gerrand is a developer at Google who works on the Go Programming Language (golang). Why Go and why now? What kinds of problems does Go solve that aren't a good match for existing languages? How does Go compare to C++ and improve upon it?

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