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I'm far from being an expert in Go or know the specifics about future plans but from what I've gathered it does seem like a beautiful system language. We mainly use it for writing lightning fast API's. I do have a feeling that it will have a breakout year in 2016.

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Go is neither a systems language nor "lighting fast" (that would make C, C++, Swift and all "ridiculous speed").

And what kind of APIs would one write in Go? The kind that can only be consumed by Go programs?

Presumably the post above was referring to HTTP-based services, which of course don't face issues of cross-language ABI compatibility. In this case Go is often much faster than Ruby, Python, JS, etc., while still allowing relatively quick development compared to even faster, yet lower level, languages such as C/C++.

I suppose they mean lightning fast HTTP API.

The sad thing is that these people are serious about it.

A systems language is language you can use to write operating systems and drivers in. What makes Go a systems language?

As far as I can tell, Go is a systems language because it has very good marketing.

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