During its dozen-plus years in the wild, Google’s Go programming language has evolved from being a curiosity for alpha geeks to being the battle-tested programming language behind some of the world’s most important cloud-native software projects.
Why was Go chosen by the developers of such projects as Docker and Kubernetes? What are Go’s defining characteristics, and how does it differ from other programming languages? What kinds of projects is Go most suitable for? In this article, we’ll explore Go’s feature set, the optimal use cases, the language’s omissions and limitations, and where Go may be going from here.
