It is a strong-typed, compiled, cross-platform, and concurrent.
It features some nice high-level structures, like maps and strings, and still
have very low-level access to the generated code: pointers are there, in a safe
strong-typed implementation just like in pascal, and there is even a "goto",
which sounds like an heresy to dogmatic coders, but does make sense to me, at
least when you want to optimize code speed, in some rare cases.
It is created/pushed by Google, used internally by the company in their computer farms, and was designed by one of the original C creators.