No need to overthink it, I think – it fills a niche where there were poor choices before. It's a safe(ish) language offering a reasonably fast runtime, with goo

No need to overthink it, I think – it fills a niche where there were poor choices before. It's a safe(ish) language offering a reasonably fast runtime, with good tooling, a standard library that covers most common requirements, some clever and clean API design, and which generates native binaries. It's pretty pragmatic in that sense. I still find it a bit of a frustrating wasted opportunity – the type system in particular just needs a few more steps to make me feel comfortable. But others may feel differently.