K8s was absolutely built using exciting tech....Golang was hot off the presses. The brand new hotness. Google's internal Borg was C++, so the boring choice was

K8s was absolutely built using exciting tech....Golang was hot off the presses. The brand new hotness. Google's internal Borg was C++, so the boring choice was C++ which wasn't chosen. Also they were google employees, which also adds a bit of bias in selection I would imagine.