> Go aims to combine the safety and performance of a statically typed compiled language with the expressiveness and convenience of a dynamically typed interpret

> Go aims to combine the safety and performance of a statically typed compiled language with the expressiveness and convenience of a dynamically typed interpreted language. It also aims to be suitable for modern systems programming. - Rob Pike https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428-pike-stanford.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428-pike-s... edit: To provide greater context from the slides I linked. Go was designed to replace C++ and Java in Google.