You're welcome to your opinion. Anecdotally, I've heard from many people that Go only took off in China because chinese programmers like google and it was sold

You're welcome to your opinion. Anecdotally, I've heard from many people that Go only took off in China because chinese programmers like google and it was sold as a language by google. > Google engineers probably favors Java/Python That's irrelevant. The fact of the matter is that Go has a company backing it and providing a constant stream of well-paid developers and infrastructure. Most small languages can barely afford to have two poorly-paid fulltime developers. I doubt go would exist if there weren't several people getting paid very large quantities of money working on it.