I misspoke (miswrote?). You are correct, it was created to address the issues Google had with C++ and—crucially—other internally supported languages like Java a

I misspoke (miswrote?). You are correct, it was created to address the issues Google had with C++ and—crucially—other internally supported languages like Java and Python could not adequately fill C++'s role. If Java could have filled this role in both compile time and memory efficiency, Go in all likelihood would never have been created. But yes, Go beats Java in compile-time speed as well.