The principal engineer for the Go programming language had a message. “Go 2, in the sense of breaking with the past and throwing away all the old programs, is never going to happen.

The rest of Cox’s talk detailed how hard the Go team works to avoid breaking existing https://thenewstack.io/what-made-golang-so-popular-the-languages-creators-look-back/ when updating the language. It explored specific examples and edge-case scenarios, showing some of the day-to-day logistics of maintaining a popular programming language.

And towards the end, he discussed changes they’re considering that would mean even fewer broken programs in the future.

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