Simple: hype. I've seen it at an employer who heavily uses golang. Even a very high up key person in the org was not able to properly defend why the company was

Simple: hype. I've seen it at an employer who heavily uses golang. Even a very high up key person in the org was not able to properly defend why the company was using it. It has its use cases, it's basically a faster python, and it's good for writing command line apps since it compiles to native code. Other than that, it has nothing going for it especially compared to proper mature server side languages like Java and C#. Even its compile times are not that impressive when programs get large, which is quite ironic.