Golang is cross-platform unlike C#, doesn't have a large start-up time like Java or C#, is more mature than Rust and higher level than C/C++. A large part of it

Golang is cross-platform unlike C#, doesn't have a large start-up time like Java or C#, is more mature than Rust and higher level than C/C++. A large part of its popularity was that it was picked up by the python and ruby community, many of whom highly dislike Java, C# and C.