Google Tech Talks. October 30, 2009. ABSTRACT. Presented by Rob Pike. What is Go?. Go is a new experimental systems programming language intended to make software development fast. Our goal is that a major Google binary should be buildable in a few seconds on a single machine. The language is concurrent, garbage-collected, and requires explicit declaration of dependencies. Simple syntax and a clean type system support a number of programming styles.. For more on Go including FAQs, source code, libraries, and tutorials, please see:.