Go is a general-purpose language that bridges the gap between efficient statically typed languages and productive dynamic language. But it’s not just the language that makes Go special – Go has broad and consistent standard libraries and powerful but simple tools.
Go was developed by engineers working at Google. It was built with the idea of helping Google's engineers develop applications at scale. A couple of Go projects at Google are the server powering dl.google.com and the database layer of YouTube. In the last couple of years, it has gained traction amongst other industry heavyweights such as Mozilla (Heka), Canonical (Juju), Heroku (Doozer), Cloudflare (Railgun), [Bitly](