> The selling point of Go is readability, feature minimalism and code that might be boring to write but gets you readability in return. That is one selling poi

> The selling point of Go is readability, feature minimalism and code that might be boring to write but gets you readability in return. That is one selling point. Another is that it's a GC'd language that compiles to native on all major platforms, and is more popular than the alternatives, like OCaml, Haskell, D, Common Lisp. Just like Java was used as a platform on which to build languages, like Groovy, Scala, Clojure and Kotlin t otake only the most popular.