Go is a general purpose language for rapid application development. It excels at concurrency, and it prioritizes consistency, simplicity, and predictability. Mo

Go is a general purpose language for rapid application development. It excels at concurrency, and it prioritizes consistency, simplicity, and predictability. Most everything is super straightforward, easy-to-use, easy-to-understand, etc. For example, most Go programs build with `go build` and no configuration files, deployment is just putting a single binary on the target system (no runtime dependencies, not even libc). In particular, Java, Python, and C# have complex build systems and runtimes, and Haskell is not in the same family of languages, so its learning curve is steeper for a lot of people--patterns and paradigms are fundamentally different, so it will take longer to see a return on investment. This doesn't make Go a "better language" in any objective sense, but those who value a no-nonsense, pragmatic language will probably enjoy Go.