Chapter 1. Introducing and Setting Up Go
When starting with Go, one of the most common things you'll hear being said is that it's a systems language.
Indeed, one of the earlier descriptions of Go, by the Go team itself, was that the language was built to be a modern systems language. It was constructed to combine the speed and power of languages, such as C with the syntactical elegance and thrift of modern interpreted languages, such as Python. You can see that goal realized when you look at just a few snippets of Go code.
From the Go FAQ on why Go was created:
"Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming."
Perhaps the largest part of present-day Systems programming is designing backend servers. ...
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