Don't frame the question as language X vs language Y. Think about the ecosystems instead. Golang provides a batteries included API that allows developers to rel

Don't frame the question as language X vs language Y. Think about the ecosystems instead. Golang provides a batteries included API that allows developers to rely less on third party libraries with shaky SLAs, a promise of version stability, and great tooling that has increased consistency of coding styles across projects. It's a simple language with a a low barrier to entry, and the Google brand encouraged earlier adopters to take risks and build products that luckily became very popular (Docker, Kubernetes, etc). It looks a lot like the languages that are already popular in Industry, without providing any real groundbreaking concepts. Building software is an economic value proposition, and it turns out that there are many ways in which a language's ecosystem can provide good value for the investment beyond the pros/cons of the language itself, and often these advantages are easier to measure from a managerial standpoint.