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Go as a new language is a mega success.

K8s, docker, native concurrency, robust std lib, list goes on.

Obviously, not the magical swiss army knife for all engineering use cases, but successful in a lot of domains and well-liked by developers. Winning.

And its only version 1.XX.

I've never even used go and I am impressed.

Well done, Google. Well done. (golf clap)

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> And its only version 1.XX.

Are there plans for a new version that is radically different, or is it going to be like Java or macOS where updates continue to change what is usually considered the minor version?

No idea, but I think it is impressive that a language that is still on "version 1.XX" has been so successful so far.

Version numbers are fairly arbitrary. I use a lot of 0.x software that is basically run as a production release.

It's success is in part because of that, not despite it. Contrast with Python3, which alienated masses of users by making breaking language changes.

A project can use version numbers 1 ... 9999999 or version numbers 1.0 ... 1.9999999. The amount of work that goes into it is the same.

See for example Java, which basically dropped the 1. from 1.5 .

Go 2 will have generics, https://blog.golang.org/generics-next-step

They will probably be introduced in a 1.x release and the design does not break backward compatibility. "Go 2" is an umbrella term for a couple of bigger features, some already released (e.g. Go modules and error wrapping), not a version number.

It also doubles as the name of a popular Eurobeat group ;)

Not sure why it being version 1.XX is a factor here. Actually that's one of Go's features- compatibility.

Surprised Angular didn't make the short list at least angularjs.

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