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)