A considerable portion of what made Go popular are things related to development and deployment, in addition to Plan9 derived standard library expanded with var

A considerable portion of what made Go popular are things related to development and deployment, in addition to Plan9 derived standard library expanded with various everyday-useful modules. The fact that you quickly got a static binary that just worked even if you removed GLIBC, that the standard library provided a way less broken network interface by default instead of BSD Sockets ("Revenge of the XTI" it should be called :D), that the language was garbage collected, and that said standard library: - made UTF-8 default and norm - provided bunch of often needed things like sensible HTTP client & server - a reasonably good multiprocessing with syntax sugar from the language All of those meant that a lot of what, for various reasons, people would be writing in Python previously for various "ops" support programs etc. would suddenly a way better experience with Go.