Talk:Go 1
Is this to be considered an implementation or a revision of the language itself? If the former, mark with {{implementation}} (of Go) please. :-) –Donal Fellows 07:53, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
- Done. Of course it's both a version and a revision, but I guess it's most significantly an implementation. (Other groups have worked on alternative implementations.) —Sonia 19:14, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
- This might be similar to Java and Java 1.5. 1.5 added new syntax and new capabilities, but it was backward compatible with code from older versions of Java. It may also be like Perl and Perl 6 where the new version is so different that it should be considered its own language. I think it really depends on what the general language community thinks. --Mwn3d 19:17, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
- I don't think this should page should exist. Go implementations include the original gc one and the gccgo one and those pages should be created. All Go 1.x versions will be backwards compatible with Go 1.0. Pre-1.0 Go code is not used in practice and is only of historical interest IMO. Specific Go examples could note when they're using a "new" language feature but personally I'd only do this if it's something specific to the task at hand (e.g. the task requires something not availble in an earlier language version). This would likely match how other languages do it (e.g. C examples tend to only mention C89, C99, etc when specifically relevant and any given example may silently require the latest, and C89, C99, etc are not listed as Category:C Implementations). —Dchapes (talk) 18:38, 1 September 2014 (UTC)