To the point that it's developing at a rapid pace: Yes and no. There is a lot of development happening on Go, but the APIs that you can access in the stable rel

To the point that it's developing at a rapid pace: Yes and no. There is a lot of development happening on Go, but the APIs that you can access in the stable releases are not changing behavior. The Go 1 compatibility contract guarantees that no breaking API changes will happen for many years, barring some serious security issue: http://golang.org/doc/go1compat.html http://golang.org/doc/go1compat.html If it compiles now, it should continue to compile and work as expected in the future.