"Perhaps most telling that Go is a good fit is that a lack of previous exposure to the language has not been a barrier for contributors" This. It's true at the

"Perhaps most telling that Go is a good fit is that a lack of previous exposure to the language has not been a barrier for contributors" This. It's true at the 100% Go backend company I work at that's never hired anyone with Go experience, and I've heard many others repeat this mantra. While many people like to think of Go's lack of features in the realms of packaging, types, syntactic sugar, etc. as downsides, they're huge upsides when learning the language. There's just so much less to learn. Onboarding a new Go developer takes days, not weeks or months.