What is GO and what can you use it for when coding!

Question

What does it do, why is it getting popular and why would people use it when coding?

Answer 1

if you talk about go programming language then it is developed by Google.
it is used in Web development.

Answer 2

"Everything interesting that’s happening is either powered by Go, or soon will be." via @bketelsen chlg.co/1U961pG #golang