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by murz 5051 days ago
The goals of Go, as stated in the 2011 I/O slides (http://golang.org/doc/talks/io2011/Writing_Web_Apps_in_Go.pd...):

- fun to work in.

- efficient - performance approaching C for CPU-intensive tasks,

- designed for modern hardware (multicore, networks),

- aimed at software such as web servers,

- ... but turned out to be a great general-purpose language.