On: Google to announce "new programming language for structured web programming"

[espadagroup]

Wait what was GO suppose to be used for?

[chc → espadagroup]

Systems programming, very explicitly. Go is basically aiming at C, whereas it sounds like this is going to be aiming at trendier languages like Python and JavaScript.

[slillibri → espadagroup]

Go was initially intended as a systems language, but has been expanded into a more general purpose language.

[dongsheng → espadagroup]

Go is to compete with cpp/c#, it slowly growing, lately it's available on google app engine