I think Go is a great "80%" language. By that I mean it isn't the best in any criteria that you'd use to evaluate a programming language: not the best type sys

I think Go is a great "80%" language. By that I mean it isn't the best in any criteria that you'd use to evaluate a programming language: not the best type system, not the fastest, not the safest, not the best concurrency, not the best package manager, not the largest ecosystem, not the easiest, and so on. However, it's very good, sometimes great, in many of these criteria. Many languages try to be the best at one thing, while Go is good enough in many things. I think that's the main reason for its success.