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- Someone 9y agoThis repeats "Go is a general purpose language", but is it? https://golang.org/doc/faq#What_is_the_purpose_of_the_project https://golang.org/doc/faq#What_is_the_purpose_of_the_projec...: "By its design, Go proposes an approach for the construction of system software on multicore machines." They also refer to https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article for "A much more expansive answer to this question". That article states: "Go is a programming language designed by Google to help solve Google's problems [...] More than most general-purpose programming languages, Go was designed to address a set of software engineering issues that we had been exposed to in the construction of large server software. "