Designed at Google, Go focuses on simplicity and safety. Go is a general purpose language but it has a focus on networking, this not too surprising coming from Google. Despite this, the language is good for a lot of uses and comes with a nice set of tools for profiling and maintaining code. The language removes a lot of features present in other languages to keep things simple which makes it quick to learn. The syntax is a bit different from the usual C style but does not take long to get used to. Programs made with Go are also very fast and build fast, though a straight port of a C/C++ program to Go may not be optimum and you may need to look up the Go way of doing things.
The compiler forces good practice by giving errors about unused variables and 'go fmt' will format your code in the preferred layout.
✔️ Produces standalone exe files that are not dependant on a separate runtime or virtual machine.
✔️ The language is much simpler than most here which makes it quick to learn.
✔️ As it is used by Google, they have great incentive to make it quicker and reduce memory usage which they do!
✔️ Built-in code formatter 'go fmt' is great!
✔️ Supports a wide range of processors and operating systems.
❌ The language is missing some useful features.
❌ Exe files can relatively large for small programs.
Find out more about Google Go.
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Updated (20/06/2026)