The goals of Go, as stated in the 2011 I/O slides (http://golang.org/doc/talks/io2011/Writing_Web_Apps_in_Go.pdf http://golang.org/doc/talks/io2011/Writing_Web_

The goals of Go, as stated in the 2011 I/O slides (http://golang.org/doc/talks/io2011/Writing_Web_Apps_in_Go.pdf 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.