The Go language (or Golang) was created by Google in 2007 and publicly released in 2009. The main creators were Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, who were also involved in projects like Unix, Plan 9, and C.

🎯 Reason for Creation

Go was created to solve specific problems that Google engineers were facing, mainly:

• Slow compilation of large codebases.
• Excessive complexity of languages like C++.
• Difficult-to-manage concurrency with traditional tools.
• The need for a simple, fast, and safe language for developing large-scale infrastructure.

🔧 What It’s Used For

Go is mainly used for:

• Web services and RESTful APIs
• Command-line tools (CLI)
• Cloud platforms
• Networking and distributed systems
• Containers (e.g., Docker was written in Go)
• Microservices

✅ Advantages

• Simplicity: Clean and concise syntax.