It has become really confusing to get started with .NET. There's a ton of stuff just from Microsoft, and it's kinda hard to understand how everything fits together.

I recently did a project where we wanted to a small built in webserver. Understanding how all the OWIN stuff fits together and knowing which libraries to use is hard than doing the actual coding. For a compiled language it's confusing that your code will compile, but not work, because you forgot a "using".

Go is younger and therefore doesn't have the baggage of .NET or Java, but it's a good example of how simple a "development environment" can be. It's not alone, Python, Lua and others are also much much easier to get started with, without being bombarded by a ton of acronyms and surrounding infrastructure libraries.