This post is the start of a new series about Go.
Go is an awesome, simple, modern, fast programming language.
It’s compiled, open source, strongly typed.
It was created by Google engineers with these main goals:
make their projects compile (and run) faster be simple so people can pick it up in little time be low level enough but also avoid some pitfalls of being too low level be portable (compiled Go programs are binaries that do not require other files to run and are cross-platform, so they can be distributed easily) be boring, stable, predictable, offer less opportunities to make mistakes make it easy to take advantage of multiprocessor systems and it was meant to be a replacement for C and C++.

Flavio Copes

Go is an awesome, simple, modern, fast programming language. It’s compiled, open source, strongly typed. It was created by Google engineers with these main goals: Make their projects compile (and run) faster. It was meant to be a replacement for C and C++ codebases.

Introduction to the Go programming language