What we’re about
Come for drinks, share stories, and create awesome things using golang!
Go is an open source project developed by a team at Google and many contributors from the open source community.
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Go is distributed under a BSD-style license.
Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming. Programming had become too difficult and the choice of languages was partly to blame. One had to choose either efficient compilation, efficient execution, or ease of programming; all three were not available in the same mainstream language. Programmers who could were choosing ease over safety and efficiency by moving to dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript rather than C++ or, to a lesser extent, Java.
Go is an attempt to combine the ease of programming of an interpreted, dynamically typed language with the efficiency and safety of a statically typed, compiled language. It also aims to be modern, with support for networked and multicore computing. Finally, it is intended to be fast: it should take at most a few seconds to build a large executable on a single computer. To meet these goals required addressing a number of linguistic issues: an expressive but lightweight type system; concurrency and garbage collection; rigid dependency specification; and so on. These cannot be addressed well by libraries or tools; a new language was called for.
The article Go at Google discusses the background and motivation behind the design of the Go language, as well as providing more detail about many of the answers presented in this FAQ.
Reference:
https://golang.org/doc/faq#What_is_the_purpose_of_the_project
