Fourteen Years of Go

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  Russ Cox, for the Go team<br>
  10 November 2023
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Today we celebrate the fourteenth birthday of the Go open source release! Go has had a great year, with two feature-filled releases and other important milestones.

We released Go 1.20 in February and Go 1.21 in August, focusing more on implementation improvements than new language changes.

Profile-guided optimization (PGO), previewed in Go 1.20 and released in Go 1.21, allows the Go compiler to read a profile of your program and ...

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