Go is a statically typed, compiled programming language designed at Google in 2007 to improve programming productivity for multicore and networked machines. It addresses criticisms of other languages used at Google while keeping useful characteristics like C's performance, Python's readability, and support for high-performance networking and multiprocessing. Go is syntactically similar to C but adds memory safety, garbage collection, and CSP-style concurrency. There are two major implementations that target multiple platforms including WebAssembly. Go aims to guarantee that code written for one version will continue to build and run with future versions.