Exactly six years ago on this day, the Go language was opened to the world in the form of an open-source project. Since then, more than 780 developers have made more than 30,000 commits to 22 Go project repositories. The ecosystem continues to grow, and now more than 90,000 repositories have been created on GitHub. Offline, we see the constant growth of new events and user groups dedicated to Go
around the world .

In August, we released
Go 1.5 , the most significant release after Go 1. It included a
completely new garbage collector , which made the language more suitable for response time sensitive programs; it was marked by the transition from the C language, in which the main toolkit was written on a completely new,
written on Go and included
new architectures , with better support for ARM processors (which are now found in most smartphones). These improvements have made Go more tailored for a wider range of tasks, and we hope to keep this trend in the coming years.
Improvements in tooling continue to improve developer productivity. We presented the
execution tracer and the
“go doc” command, as well as a lot of improvements to our
static code analysis tools . We are also working on the official Go-plugin for
Sublime Text , and the best Go support in other editors and IDEs.
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At the beginning of next year, we will add new improvements in Go 1.6, including support for HTTP / 2 in servers and
net / http clients, the official mechanism for dependency rendering, block support in text and HTML templates, a memory sanitizer that works with both Go and C / C ++ code, and a familiar set of improvements and fixes.
This is the sixth time when we are happy to write a holiday post with congratulations on the Go blog, and we would not be able to do this if we didn’t have such wonderful and involved people in the community. The Go team would like to thank everyone who contributed their code to Go, or wrote and opened the library, wrote a blog post, helped the novice gopher, or even just tried the Go language. Without you, Go would not be as complete, useful and successful as he is now.
Thanks, and now is the time to celebrate!