Who are the creators?

Some pretty solid names are behind the creation of Go. The language was created by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson at Google.

• Ken Thompson

  • B and C languages
  • Unix
  • UTF-8
  • Grep

• Rob Pike

  • Unix
  • UTF-8

• Robert Griesemer

  • Google V8
  • Java HotSpot VM

GitHub repository: https://github.com/golang/go