I couldn't find the initial announcement, but here is one of the very first presentations by Rob Pike: https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428-pi

I couldn't find the initial announcement, but here is one of the very first presentations by Rob Pike: https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428-pike-stanford.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428-pike-s... "The target Go aims to combine the safety and performance of a statically typed compiled language with the expressiveness and convenience of a dynamically typed interpreted language."