I think the 1.0 compatibility promise, the simplicity of the language, and great standard library let people focus more on the problem than other languages. I

I think the 1.0 compatibility promise, the simplicity of the language, and great standard library let people focus more on the problem than other languages. I wrote my own zero allocation xml parser in Go the other day and it is 2-3 times faster than the standard library. It was not difficult to do mainly because I could reference what the standard library was doing. The code is easy to read and understand.