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The Go Programming Language

Go (often referred to as Golang) is a open source programming language created by Google in 2009 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.

I have found Go to provide a easy to maintain code base with high performance. Also Go applications compile quickly and launch immediately.

Go in the Clouds

The Go team at Google have just released (24 July 2018) a new open source project, Go Cloud, a library and tools for developing on the open cloud. This project is aimed to make Go the language of choice for developers building portable cloud applications. Which fits very well with a project we are working on right now, so I have started to see how this can help us out going forward.

Go Turns 15 (11 November 2024)

Time sure fly's by, its hard to believe that Go has turned 15. Go has published a blog post covering the past and looking forward.

How does JasmineDesign use Go

At JasmineDesign we have used Go to build up our core ecosystem to support our JorvikHosting and JorvikCloud services bridging that gap between data and cloud features and services.

Over the last few months we have also been exploring some new features that will be available as part of JorvikPage services but we are not ready to talk about this just yet. But a little clue for now is that it revolves around a repository plus a website. Though we have always found Go to perform whatever tasks we ask it to do really well.

Microsoft port the TypeScript transpiler to GO

The TypeScript team have announced a port of the tsc transpiler from TypeScript to GO which has delivered a 10X speed improvement along with memory reductions. We have written in more depth about the announcement on our TypeScript page.

The repository has been opened up at typescript-go along with a blog post titled A 10x Faster TypeScript

This port can only be a good thing for GO as it will bring additions and improvements to the Go features and support in VS Code as a major side effect. Plus with VS Code being the starting place to build from for so many services today, So it will not only be a plus within the editor itself.