| # The path to Go 1 |
| 14 Mar 2013 |
| Tags: talk, video, go1 |
| Summary: Watch Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand's talk, The Path to Go 1. |
| OldURL: /the-path-to-go-1 |
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| Andrew Gerrand |
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| In July 2012, Rob Pike and I presented a talk at OSCON titled _The path to Go 1_. |
| In it we explain how Go 1 came to be, and outline the process by which Go |
| was refined and stabilized to become the clean, |
| consistent programming environment that it is today. |
| We present the major highlights of the release and discuss the details behind |
| some specific libraries and tools. |
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| .iframe //www.youtube.com/embed/bj9T2c2Xk_s 309 550 |
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| The slides for the talk are [available here](https://talks.golang.org/2012/go1.slide). |
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| It's almost a year since we cut Go 1.0 and we are now busy preparing Go 1.1. |
| The release will include performance improvements to the gc compiler, |
| garbage collector, and goroutine scheduler, |
| some standard library additions, and many bug fixes and other improvements. |
| Stay tuned, as we hope to release Go 1.1 in the coming weeks. |
