Go: The Language with the Best Mascot
I want to learn Go just because I like the mascot. How could anyone not respect this little guy?
From Wikipedia:
Go originated as an experiment by Google engineers Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson to design a new programming language that would resolve common criticisms of other languages while maintaining their positive characteristics. The developers envisaged the new language as:
- statically typed, scalable to large systems (as Java and C++)
- productive and readable, without too many mandatory keywords and repetition[21] (“light on the page” like dynamic languages)
- not requiring integrated development environments, but supporting them well
- supporting networking and multiprocessing