It's not that go can do things other language can't . It's the combination of keeping the language simple and gofmt means I can read anyone's code and understa

It's not that go can do things other language can't . It's the combination of keeping the language simple and gofmt means I can read anyone's code and understand it. I've been doing this for 25 years and that has never been true for me with any other language. The real benefits for me with go are Tooling. Gofmt, godef, etc make using emacs a dream. Extensive stdlib. I pull in exactly two small libraries to build a very large web app: odbc, gorilla mux. Everything is baked in: http server, templating, compression, database Cross compiling, being able to build a Windows exe in my Mac for deployment is awesome Fast compilation. Interfaces are a key concept and used everywhere to great effect in the std library