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Go en · NOUN · etymology 1

Meanings

1. (alt-of, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of go (“strategic board game”).
   alt of go
   • It is shown that Stratego is a complex game when compared to other games, such as chess and Hex. The game-tree complexity of 10⁵³⁵ exceeds the game-tree complexity of Go. 2010 March 14, Sander Arts, “COMPETITIVE PLAY IN STRATEGO”, in Maastricht University, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022, page vii:

Go en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *gāną Proto-West Germanic *gān Old English gān Middle English gon English go ▲ English Googleinflu. English Go From go, likely with reference to the first two letters of Google.

Meanings

1. A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.
   • Despite the lower priority placed on features, Go isn't a static, unchanging language. New features are adopted slowly, after much discussion and experimentation. Since the initial release of Go 1.0, there have been significant changes to the patterns that define idiomatic Go. 2021, Jon Bodner, Learning Go, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 327:

Deriveds

goroutine

Synonyms

Golang