The best summary I read recently is that go isn't a bad language, nor is it a particularly good one. What fascinates me is the way the Golang community have concretised that essential middle-of-the-roadness as the language's prime virtue. That, of course, has long been Java's prime virtue as well. (see Blub Paradox)
By putting "we're okay with being okay" as your Big Thing you're clearly pitching for that vast bulk of mid-quality developers that make up the huge middle chunk of corporate devs, the space where Java reigns supreme.
By putting "we're okay with being okay" as your Big Thing you're clearly pitching for that vast bulk of mid-quality developers that make up the huge middle chunk of corporate devs, the space where Java reigns supreme.