Go 1.4 Official release supports Android development

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This is the fifth year of Go, and the Go 1.4 version is also the fifth stable version. It is 6 months apart from the go 1.3 version. The most notable version of this update is the official Android support, and now developers can use go to develop a simple Android app.

This version improves on small languages, supports more operating systems and processor architectures, and improves toolchain and libraries. Also, Go 1.4 optimizes stability, with no modifications to compile or run.

Language improvements are syntax improvements in the For-range loop, and in 1.3 there are two ways to do it:
Reference for range x {
...
}
In version 1.4, there is a new subcommand, go generate, which is used primarily to automate tools to generate source code before compiling. The speed of the basic and 1.3 version of the same, slightly faster. In addition, there are a lot of improvements and bug fixes. See the official release notes for Go 1.4 for more details.

Go is an open-source programming language released by Google in 2009, and the current code hosting address has been moved to GitHub, where you can access and play more easily.

Last week, the go official announced that the 1.5 version had been put on the agenda, of which 1.5 of the garbage collectors will be completely concurrent, compilers, assemblers, linker and runtime will be written with go, ported to 64-bit power PC, more complete support for Android, may support 64-bit arm.

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