Origins（溯源）

Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson started sketching the goals for a new language on the white board on September 21, 2007. Within a few days the goals had settled into a plan to do something and a fair idea of what it would be. Design continued part-time in parallel with unrelated work. By January 2008, Ken had started work on a compiler with which to explore ideas; it generated C code as its output. By mid-year the language had become a full-time project and had settled enough to attempt a production compiler. In May 2008, Ian Taylor independently started on a GCC front end for Go using the draft specification. Russ Cox joined in late 2008 and helped move the language and libraries from prototype to reality.
2007 年 9 月 21 日，Robert Griesemer、Rob Pike 和 Ken Thompson 开始在白板上勾勒出一种新语言的目标。几天之内，这些目标就变成了一项计划，并对其具体内容有了一个清晰的想法。设计工作与不相关的工作同时进行。到 2008 年 1 月，Ken 开始开发一个编译器来探索想法；它生成 C 代码作为其输出。到年中，该语言已成为一个全职项目，并且已经足够稳定以尝试生产编译器。2008 年 5 月，Ian Taylor 使用规范草案独立开始了 Go 的 GCC 前端。Russ Cox 于 2008 年底加入，帮助将语言和库从原型转变为现实。

fair
adj. 公平的;合理的;相当多的;浅色的;白皙的;晴朗的,清楚的;
n. 游乐场;集市;展销会;
adv. 公正地;

Go became a public open source project on November 10, 2009. Countless people from the community have contributed ideas, discussions, and code.
Go 于 2009 年 11 月 10 日成为公共开源项目。来自社区的无数人贡献了想法、讨论和代码。

There are now millions of Go programmers—gophers—around the world, and there are more every day. Go's success has far exceeded our expectations.
现在世界各地有数以百万计的 Go 程序员（地鼠），而且还在不断增加。Go 的成功远远超出了我们的预期。