Authors:
Niklas Peiper
Dara Reyahi

Go wiki

Abstract

This raport aims to evaluate the new programing language from Google, Go. The most interesting thing about the language is foremost the unique way they have implemented a way for concurrent programing. But also thier extensive library for webserver programing. The goal is to form an opinion of Go, its pros and cons aswell as the possible future of the language. Experiments have been conducted to compare Go to Java and C on different aspects of thier language design. These experiments shows the difference in performence, library support and the advantage of Go on a multicored hardware.