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Go.

A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.

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  1. A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.

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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.

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