> How do you address its popularity in the field of cloud computing then (which I presume you would agree is pretty complex)? Go was simply the first language

> How do you address its popularity in the field of cloud computing then (which I presume you would agree is pretty complex)? Go was simply the first language to successfully target the niche of imperative, natively compiled, GCed languages. It wasn't the first language of this kind, but the first to have a reasonable amount of adoption/backing. Whatever other flaws it has or had were trumped by the lack of serious competition in this area.