Wow, seriously, hats off to Google on this one…  This should make threaded apps programming easier in the future for me.  They have created a language called “Go”, which in my opinion, looks like if Python and C++ had a child out of wedlock.  I don’t think I’ll be able to stop gushing about Go for a while.  I believe I have found my new prototyping language, however, I don’t see a reason why this couldn’t run production code…

Check out this snippet of Go code:

file: threads.go

package main

import "fmt"

import "syscall"

const THREADS = 2;

func threadtest(a int) {

fmt.Printf("Thread %d started.\n", a);

syscall.Sleep(10);

for true {

for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {

fmt.Printf("Thread %d -> %d \n", a, i);

}

}

}

func waitforever(debug int) {

for true {

if debug == 1 {

fmt.Printf(".");

} else {

fmt.Printf("");

}

}

}

func main() {

fmt.Printf("testing threads:\n");

for i := 0; i < THREADS; i++ {

go threadtest(i);

}

waitforever(0);

}

Output:

$ ./threads

testing threads:

Thread 0 started.

Thread 1 started.

Thread 0 -> 0 

Thread 1 -> 0 

Thread 0 -> 1 

Thread 1 -> 1 

Thread 0 -> 2 

Thread 1 -> 2 

Thread 0 -> 3 

Thread 1 -> 3 

Thread 0 -> 4 

Thread 1 -> 4 

Thread 0 -> 5 

Thread 1 -> 5 

Thread 0 -> 6 

Thread 1 -> 6 

Thread 0 -> 7 

Thread 1 -> 7 

Thread 0 -> 8 

Thread 1 -> 8 

Thread 0 -> 9 

Thread 1 -> 9