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Public Release — Go 1.0 (2012)
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Explanation
Go was open-sourced in November 2009. On March 28, 2012, Go 1.0 was released — the first stable version with a compatibility guarantee: code written for Go 1.0 would compile without modification on all future Go 1.x releases. This promise, unbroken to this day, drove adoption.
Real-World Scenario
The Go 1 compatibility promise let companies like Docker (2013), Kubernetes (2014), and HashiCorp adopt Go for production infrastructure without fear of forced rewrites on every version bump.