I think a lot of it is that people sort of did want some static type checking, but were not willing to give up on things like garbage collection or some of the

I think a lot of it is that people sort of did want some static type checking, but were not willing to give up on things like garbage collection or some of the other niceties that the dynamic languages provided. As someone who has been clamoring for a statically-checked Python-esque language, Go looks awesome.