A little perspective is in order here: Go appeared in 2009 Scala appeared in 2003 For more perspective, Ruby appeared in 1995 and Python in 1991, and yet thos

A little perspective is in order here: Go appeared in 2009 Scala appeared in 2003 For more perspective, Ruby appeared in 1995 and Python in 1991, and yet those just became really popular in the past 5-10 years. It takes a while for languages to gain maturity. Go wasn't going to "take off" after two years.