doc: update Usage section of the FAQ

This is close to a complete rewrite, as the content was pretty old.

The CL includes links to the Wiki for information about companies
using Go, a new section about IDEs and editors¹, and a restatement
of the foreign function interface story. It also modernizes and
expands a little on the use of Go inside Google.

¹ Ed is the standard editor.

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Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
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README.md

The Go Programming Language

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