Go is one of the least exciting languages introduced in recent years but is still one of the more popular languages.
I think that it really is a selling point how boring go is, there are no quirks, no unexpected side effects, no amazing flexibility and when something compiles, it very often does exactly what you wanted it to do.
With php and python I always felt very clever for doing some things in amazing ways. With Go I never have that feeling, but when I look at the code I imagine that the developers of Go themselves were extremely clever, I can make concurrent programs with little extra effort. What's going on in the compiler, I don't know (and probably don't want to know), but it is one heck of a language for it.
Event-based programming without all the callbacks and event loops.
With php and python I always felt very clever for doing some things in amazing ways. With Go I never have that feeling, but when I look at the code I imagine that the developers of Go themselves were extremely clever, I can make concurrent programs with little extra effort. What's going on in the compiler, I don't know (and probably don't want to know), but it is one heck of a language for it.
Event-based programming without all the callbacks and event loops.