The problem with all those modern type-safe programming languages is that they all use modern programming idioms. In reality, the market just wanted another C,

The problem with all those modern type-safe programming languages is that they all use modern programming idioms. In reality, the market just wanted another C, the 2nd place language in this list, without the parts that make it especially dangerous to use. Go came the most close to providing that, and thus it started to see adoption in that market.