Go in Go Gopherfest 26 May 2015 Rob Pike Google Go in Go As of the 1.5 release of Go, the entire system is now written in Go. (And a little assembler.) C is gone. Side note: gccgo is still going strong. This talk is about the original compiler, gc. 2 Why was it in C? Bootstrapping. (Also Go was not intended primarily as a compiler implementation language.) 3 Why move the compiler to Go? Not for va