Twelve Years of Go

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<h1>Twelve Years of Go</h1>
  
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  Russ Cox, for the Go team<br>
  10 November 2021
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  <p>Today we celebrate the twelfth birthday of the Go open source release.

We have had an eventful year and have a lot to look forward to next year.

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[AstonJ]

I had no idea Go was 12 years old! I thought it was much younger than that

[joeb]

What kinds of applications is Go best to use?

[Maartz]

Well, I’d say it depends. I’ve used Go at work for micro-services. But you can write Docker with it too.
Or use Buffalo to make web applications.

But by experience, it really shines in micro-services and CLI tools.

[joeb]

Thanks. Will consider that.

[iPaul]

In my opinion, Go can be used as a C replacement in domains where you don’t need the ultimate speed and where you can afford a garbage collected language. Go is also really good for server side code.