Go: a simple programming environment 23 April 2013 Andrew Gerrand Google Why Go? 2 Software should be simple 3 Software can be simple 4 What I mean by "simple" Small Readable Consistent Orthogonal Predictable Robust Useful by default 5 Go at a glance Compiled Statically typed Clean syntax Simple type system Concurrency primitives Rich standard library Great tools Open source This talk is just a ta