It helps the modern programmer do more with a strong set of tooling, removing debates over formatting by making the format part of the language specification, as well as making deployment easy by compiling each program and all of its dependencies into a single binary. While Go is a versatile language that can be used for many kinds of projects, from web applications to command-line tools, it is particularly well suited for distributed systems and microservice architectures, earning it a reputation as the language of the cloud. So Google invented Go and designed the language to have it all: fast compilation, fast execution, easy to write, and easy to deploy. Some languages executed efficiently but took a long time to compile, while others were easy to write but ran inefficiently in production. At Google, developers were tired of having to make tradeoffs when picking the language for a new project. Go is a programming language that was born out of frustration.