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Go makes a comeback: What’s fueling its revival?

Although Go was released to much furore in late 2009, when it was heralded as Programming Language of the Year by the TIOBE Index, its popularity has waxed and waned over the years. Now Go has re-emerged as one of the best programming languages to learn this year for two main reasons: security and AI. […]

“Working together to set clear goals and timelines in transition roadmaps to safer programming language is critical for mitigating these problems.” A large breadth of reasons are cited for this, from hailing the core aspects of Go, namely robustness, simplicity and performance, through to the fact that organizations are already using Go and prefer to keep the tech stack used as homogenous as possible. With endorsements from international security experts and growing adoption in AI-powered applications, Go is positioning itself well as a versatile and future-proof language that will help shape the future of software development.

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