It got introduced at time when completion was less fierce and competing languages sucked at that time. Sometimes it's just as well about timing. Swift, Kotlin,

It got introduced at time when completion was less fierce and competing languages sucked at that time. Sometimes it's just as well about timing. Swift, Kotlin, Typescript, Rust didn't exist at that time. If today Go got introduced for the first time I doubt it would gain any momentum. Swift is probsbly to late to the party considering big competition amount languages and their ecosystems being "nice" today is not enough.