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  1. Why Go?
    Nathan Youngman 2012-05-07T00:00:00+00:00
  2. 📕 Reviewing Practical Object-Oriented Design
    Nathan Youngman 2013-01-10T00:00:00+00:00
  3. Go Object Oriented Design
    Nathan Youngman 2013-01-14T00:00:00+00:00
  4. 🕸️ My Journey Into Programming
    Nathan Youngman 2014-03-30T00:00:00+00:00
  5. 🦀 Four Thousand Weeks in Rust
    Nathan Youngman 2024-09-18T00:00:00+00:00
  6. 🕸️ 28 Years of Web Development
    Nathan Youngman 2025-05-31T00:00:00+00:00
  7. 💭 Career Break: What Will I Do
    Nathan Youngman 2025-06-13T00:00:00+00:00
  8. 💸 Career Break: How I Got Here
    Nathan Youngman 2025-06-13T00:00:00+00:00
  9. 🤖 Sudo Make Me A Triangle
    Nathan Youngman 2025-07-15T00:00:00+00:00
  10. 😎 Summer Break
    Nathan Youngman 2025-08-29T00:00:00+00:00
  11. 🌱 My Vegan Journey
    Nathan Youngman 2025-08-31T00:00:00+00:00
  12. ⛵️ Painting with Rebelle 8 Pro
    Nathan Youngman 2026-03-03T00:00:00+00:00
  13. 💔 Animating with Moho 14.4
    Nathan Youngman 2026-03-04T00:00:00+00:00
  14. 🎹 Learning to Play
    Nathan Youngman 2026-03-05T00:00:00+00:00

Why Go?

Nathan Youngman

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<figure> <img alt="Gophers on a swing" class="full" src="https://nathany.com/images/gopher-swing.jpg" /> <figcaption>Getting into the swing of it.</figcaption> </figure> <p>Go was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s">introduced</a> on November 10th, 2009 as a new system programming language with quick build times. Go&rsquo;s excellent tooling, elegant concurrency model and unique approach to object-orientation has captivated the attention of developers from compiled and scripting languages alike.</p> <blockquote> <p>&ldquo;Go will be the server language of the future.&rdquo; - Tobias Lütke, Shopify</p>