Go’s 16th Anniversary and the Major Highlights of 2025

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The Go team is applying its thoughtful and uncompromising mindset to the problems and opportunities of this dynamic space.
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Go 1.24 and 1.25 were released in February and August of this year, respectively. Go is the most productive language platform for building production systems. New APIs for building robust and reliable software have been added to the language and library.