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 2016-05-03 OpenStack Programming Languages
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  .. note::

    This resolution modifies :doc:`20150901-programming-languages` to
    include Go as an approved language for OpenStack projects.

Go (alternatively referred to as "Golang" for clarity) is a
programming language designed to produce efficient programs,
especially for those programs that require concurrency and network
operations.

OpenStack projects, especially service projects, have very high
concurrency and network requirements, so Golang provides some
advantages for these projects. Because we recognize that different
languages are better at different things and because we want to allow
OpenStack developers to use the best tool for the job, the supported
languages in OpenStack is expanded to be Bash, Go, JavaScript, and
Python.

Like with Python, projects using other languages should continue to
collaborate where appropriate to share code in common libraries.