| # Go Wins 2010 Bossie Award |
| 6 Sep 2010 |
| Summary: Go wins a 2010 Bossie Award for “best open source application development software.” |
| OldURL: /go-wins-2010-bossie-award |
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| Andrew Gerrand |
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| The Go project has been awarded a [Bossie Award](http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/bossie-awards-2010-the-best-open-source-application-development-software-140¤t=2&last=1) |
| for "best open source application development software." The [Bossie Awards](http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/bossie-awards-2010-the-best-open-source-software-the-year-115) |
| have been given each year since 2007 by [InfoWorld](http://infoworld.com/) |
| to recognize the best Open Source projects. |
| Their citation reads: |
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| Google's Go language tries to restore simplicity to programming. |
| It does away with numerous constructs that have crept into all OO languages |
| by re-imagining how to simplify and improve the conversation between a developer and the code. |
| Go provides garbage collection, type safety, |
| memory safety, and built-in support for concurrency and for Unicode characters. |
| In addition, it compiles (fast!) to binaries for multiple platforms. |
| Go is still in development (new features are being added) and it has limitations, |
| notably poor support for Windows. |
| But it shows a new, exciting direction in programming languages. |
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| The Go team are pleased to accept this award. |
| It reflects not only our hard work, but also the efforts of the growing |
| community of Go developers to whom we must extend our sincere thanks. |
