> I fail to see what is unique about Go That's because you're looking at it purely from only one point of view - the number of available features in the langu

> I fail to see what is unique about Go That's because you're looking at it purely from only one point of view - the number of available features in the language itself. What's unique about Go is not so much about the language itself as the approach of its authors to creating it. Go hasn't meaningfully changed in the 10 years of its existence. That's not an accident - the bar to add anything is extremely high. A feature needs to be punching way above its cost to even be considered. If you look around the programming language space, you'll see the exact opposite attitudes, features get added into languages willy-nilly. Not much point in having different languages when they just trade features until they become indistinguishable from each other. There are only three other languages that I know of that at least sort-of follow a similar philosophy to Go: 1. C 2. Zig 3. Elixir You aren't going to be writing general-purpose code in C, so that's out. Zig is about a decade away from being a contender. Elixir is a valid choice, albeit much more niche and unfamiliar to the average programmer than Go is. So if you want a language that'll be there for you in the long haul, that will not invalidate what you've learned about it every 3 years or so, you're left with Go.