Interesting that a lot of serious and important tools of today are being written in Go (like Docker and Rocket which made another news today). Very impressive for a young programming language which is still at version 1.3.
Speed of development is the killer feature that Go has. For me and most people I know who enjoy the language it provides an almost frictionless development experience that makes us more productive than any other language I know.
I'm a language geek so I totally get the whole "Why doesn't go have {Generics,Typeclasses,Hindley-Milner Type Inference,...}" arguments. Sometimes I miss them too. But then I remember how I literally cut months off a personal project's development time using Go. That's when I remember to be greatful for the core teams approach to making a purely pragmatic language that is geared toward frictionless development above all else.
By this you mean that people adopted Go because it is good (in a technical sense), and because of the speed of development rather than because it was "new and shiny"? Fair point.
> I'm a language geek so I totally get the whole "Why doesn't go have {Generics,Typeclasses,Hindley-Milner Type Inference,...}" arguments.
Why do you bring this up?
I was trying to be preemptive instead of presumptuous. Please accept my apology. I can see how it might have been misinterpreted.