- Real concurrency without having to deal with spawning multiple programs that communicate over some higher level process - Good concurrency primitive (channel

- Real concurrency without having to deal with spawning multiple programs that communicate over some higher level process - Good concurrency primitive (channel), although asyncio Futures in Py3 aren't that bad either - Strong typing - Easy byte-level manipulation - Extremely easy to learn - Simplistic error handling compared to exceptions (there are problems with this I won't go into, but it's easy to learn at least) - Amazing tooling (gofmt forces your codebase to be consistent regardless of who is writing it)