Simplicity and a great concurrency model are the two biggest selling points. When Clojure steals your concurrency primitives and calls them "go" in your honor,

Simplicity and a great concurrency model are the two biggest selling points. When Clojure steals your concurrency primitives and calls them "go" in your honor, you're doing something right. Blazing fast, consistent tooling don't hurt either. Personally, I find Go code to be imminently readable - I can dive into a new codebase and start understanding/navigating it almost immediately. But I don't know if I'd choose to write a Golang project from scratch. It's got a garbage collector and sketchy C interop - not low-level enough to be used for most systems programming. But it's also not expressive enough and lacks the rich ecosystem of Python or Javascript. Jack of all trades, master of none, IMO. Golang is a solid language for HTTP web services for big teams with varied abilities, but there are better languages based on their technical merits alone.