The Origin Story Rumor has it that GoLang’s ideation occurred during the lull in which developers were waiting for their program to compile. These devs were getting tired of waiting, and not working. Three programmers at Google, rose to the occasion as they have so many times before. In 2009 Go was announced, and version 1.0 was released in 2012. Three engineers at Google (Robert Griesemer, Ken Thompson, and Rob Pike) created a systems level language to replace all of the other ones since there hadn’t been a new one in that arena in a while and none of the existing languages were considering multi-threading as a core tenant.