IME people recommended it for being more batteries-included in terms of webservice stuff and some multithreading/scaling stuff, as well as having multiplatform

IME people recommended it for being more batteries-included in terms of webservice stuff and some multithreading/scaling stuff, as well as having multiplatform support and libraries being compiled into the executable. The language also seems to be built for the kind of people who think C has no downsides and everyone should write everything as explicitly as possible, which are an audience that normally doesn't get aimed at.