Comment by lawn

> I still hold that Go's success is attributed to the fact that you could build a web application out of the box, minus database drivers.

I attribute Go's success purely by it being pushed by Google.

If we use Rust as an example, it's super easy to include high quality libraries (just add s line in Cargo.toml and you're good to go).

Another example is Ruby and how it was made popular thanks to Rails, or how Elixir is making a splash in web dev thanks to Phoenix.