A lot of major utilities in modern software development are written in Go (e.g. Docker and Kubernetes) so it’s definitely a “hit” by any objective measure. It i

A lot of major utilities in modern software development are written in Go (e.g. Docker and Kubernetes) so it’s definitely a “hit” by any objective measure. It is not universal like Java but it is an established and mature language that will likely continue to grow. I don’t think Go is considered uncool - if anything it’s the opposite. Probably fair to say that Go is “cool” for hackers and CTOs but “less cool” for formal computer scientists since its type system is limited (and even then goroutines are interesting as first-class construct). But I like Scheme, F#, and Idris, so don’t take my word for it :)