It is not.

Link to previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14958989

> 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."

> That page points to 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."