Google advances multiple efforts to make the Web faster

14.11.2009
When you add up this week's top news, it paints a picture of a gargantuan, but immature, effort to make the Web faster. its experimental programming language that combines the speed of scripting languages with the speed and safety of compiled languages. It released known as "SPDY." Plus rumors are swirling will be seen next week at last.

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is a newly announced programming language created by Google and released as an open source project. Some experts say that Go's syntax is friendly and easy like Python or Ruby on Rails while remaining familiar enough to those who know C-based languages. But it's an experimental language for all that. And it's a less-than-easy task to build a following for a new language. Google needs to commit to Go for the long term, work hard at championing and strengthening it until other developers have some reason to take on the learning curve to work with it.

SPDY, pronounced "SPeeDY", is an another experiment. SPDY would replace the HTTP protocol with a new application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web. It's inventors say it is designed to minimize "latency through features such as multiplexed streams, request prioritization and HTTP header compression," according to the It hasn't completely scrapped HTTP, but it's not a mere extension either. The protocol still uses HTTP headers, but it overrides other parts of the protocol, such as connection management and data transfer formats.

For starters, browser would need to support it. While Google can do that with Chrome and still has lots of financial sway with Mozilla, how would Google would convince the mighty Microsoft to add it to Internet Explorer? And IE is still the preferred browser for corporations and most Windows users.