- Language from Google
- Natively compiled to machine language
- The design is to restrict the language to have not more than 25 keywords
- Not object-oriented
- Docker, Kubernetes, Consul are built and based on Go
- Statically typed, garbage collected
- Open source
- Has pointers, but no pointer arithmetic like C
- Built-in concurrency model with Goroutines, channels
- Concurrency is managed by the Go runtime unlike other programming languages where the OS kernel takes care
