my hypothesis was that as the world has moved forward, Google has accumulated legions of C++/to a lesser extent Java/C experts that they needed to corral into m

my hypothesis was that as the world has moved forward, Google has accumulated legions of C++/to a lesser extent Java/C experts that they needed to corral into modern software engineering, to include programming languages. Go is exactly that - good enough - in part due to: - has enough C-like syntax to keep the old "this doesn't look like C/C++" guard muzzled (as opposed to e.g. Java) - avoids some of the huge C++ productivity land mines (no package management, divining which Boost version to use, build systems, etc.) - has a 21st century standard library (net/http as a first class citizen as opposed to whatever the C/C++ ecosystem "offers") - fast enough and memory performant enough, whilst exposing pointers, unsafe ops, and C interop should the need arise i think most of the above are mind tricks to get the C++ crowd to complain slightly less while increasing productivity multi-fold.