It seems Google‘s going too bullish this week with some grand announcements coming from the Google Factory. Earlier we informed you about the not-so-far-away launch of Google Chrome operating system, In addition to that Google also announced the rolling out of their very own Programming Language – Go, with its cute mascot called the Go-gopher.
If that wasn’t enough, there was another announcement about a new protocol being developed as a project at google labs called SPDY (Read SPeeDY) which, if successful will make internet browsing twice, yes you heard it right, twice as fast as the current protocol(HTTP) offers. I’m not sure if I’m missing some other announcement coming from the Global Major.
Go!
Programmers at Google thought the current coding languages too complex for simple tasks(simple, by their standards, may be Herculean for us). So they did what Google has always been known for, create a new improvised product which is superior to anything which already exists(remember, Chrome the Browser). And according to Google, Go! is not just Superior and easy, its fun as well. Simply its the same reason why we speak in English, Hindi or Marathi rather than conversing in cave language.
If you are a coder yourself, go check their website for details and the free download. But for our other readers, This language is a happy improvement over other good programming languages, which were themselves developed more than a decade ago. Data today is huge in proportions, and requires huge coding to develop an efficient system.
If we can write the same codes in small and more coder friendly way, the whole ‘environment’ becomes healthy and efficient. I guess thats what Go aims to do, increase the current theoretical output by about 1.5 times. Now We need to wait for the approval of coders for Go! to have a go, if you know what I mean.
SPDY
Other major announcement that Google made via their Chromium Blog was an early stage Research Project called SPDY(read SPeeDY) which as they call is ‘an Application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web’. Simply, Google’s aim over here is to get an improvement over HTTP, which is a standard protocol used across the globe to access internet since 1996.
As it sounds from the blog’s tone, Google thinks HTTP has now grown old and has done its job to the best of its ability and now needs to retire as your old uncle will do when he reaches that age. After all 13 years is a long time in cyberspace for getting something as basic as a protocol to get replaced. Google claims to have had done test runs of the new protocol on Google Chrome clients with SPDY support in ‘Laboratory conditions’ and have achieved 55% faster speeds in downloading top 25 websites.
Their aim is to achieve 100% increment in speeds, which may be possible with some more tweeks in the current code. Also, to assess the performance in ‘real world’ situations. If google succeeds, it would virtually become the uncrowned king of innovation in technology.
Google is having many more projects in pipeline, which aim at changing the way the world uses their computers. Is Microsoft listening?
Your article contains mistakes. You repeatedly say that SPDY is to replace HTML, but this is not true. SPDY is an improvement of HTTP, not HTML.
Thanks. The errors have been rectified.