The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive.

Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.

Go was designed at Google in 2007 to improve programming productivity in an era of multicore, networked machines and large codebases.[23] The designers wanted to address criticism of other languages in use at Google, but keep their useful characteristics:[24]

static typing and run-time efficiency (like C++),

readability and usability (like Python or JavaScript),[25]

high-performance networking and multiprocessing.

The designers were primarily motivated by their shared dislike of C++.[26][27][28]

Go was publicly announced in November 2009,[29] and version 1.0 was released in March 2012.[30][31] Go is widely used in production at Google[32] and in many other organizations and open-source projects.

Go is influenced by C, but with an emphasis on greater simplicity and safety. The language consists of: