Comment by zija

From top popular language, say from https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-2..., only Go and Swift/ Objective-C are languages with static typing, compiled to native tool chain . And Swift are very apple centric.

This have huge impact for go popularity. Alternative to Go: - java and JVM language are heavy gorilla languages that's need more resources/ no value types. graal native is not straightforward alternative. - C# is good alternative, but again jitted, and there are no alternative for Microsoft products in open source community,people choose go as default alternative to java few years ago..