Download Go 1.9rc1

Go, also referred to as golang, is a programming language developed by Google and the open source community since 2007. Among other things, the language is cloudflare, google, Netflix and Uber used. Go code can be compiled for Android, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, and Windows on i386, amd64, and ARM processor architectures. The syntax of Go is similar to that of C and similar programming languages, although there are also some notable differences. Go also offers the option of distributed programming, in which several processes are executed simultaneously. The team has released the first release candidate of Go 1.9 with the following announcement:

Go 1.9 Release Candidate 1 has been released

hello gophers,

We have just released go1.9rc1, a release candidate of Go 1.9. It is cut from release-branch.go1.9 at the revision tagged go1.9rc1.

Thank you to everyone who has helped to test Go 1.9 so far. We still need more people to test, especially on production workloads. Your help is invaluable.

Report any problems using the issue tracker:
https://golang.org/issue/new

If you have Go installed already, the easiest way to try go1.9rc1 is by using this tool:
https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/build/version/go1.9rc1

You can download binary and source distributions from the usual place:

To find out what has changed in Go 1.9, read the draft release notes:
https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.9

Documentation for Go 1.9 is available at:
https://tip.golang.org/

cheers,
Chris