A bit of an update to my point above, it does feel a bit like Pascal to me, but kind of missing some of Pascal's nice stuff... My pet theory to the popularity

A bit of an update to my point above, it does feel a bit like Pascal to me, but kind of missing some of Pascal's nice stuff... My pet theory to the popularity is that it feels satisfying to just churn out many lines of code and in Go it seems you do that instead of using abstractions or "magic" as in many other languages. So Yeah, I expect popularity to drop as more "legacy" code bases need to be picked up by devs ...