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This is an interesting take. Go is great because it balances performance, expressiveness, ease of use, and bug prevention probably better than any other language. I’m very happy Go is the container-world language instead of Rust, rust is just a pain.

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Go is great, because its authors happened to have a manager that allowed them to work on their side project to avoid using C++ at Google, and eventually it took off thanks to Docker and Kubernetes pivoting to Go, and their related success in the industry.

Had it not been the case, and it would have been as successful in the industry as Oberon-2 and Limbo, its two main influences, and (simplifying the actual historical facts) previous work from the authors.

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