> Why did go "win" over erlang, scala, and clojure? Erlang sucks at string handling which is a no-go in Web developing. Scala, Clojure, people don't even both

> Why did go "win" over erlang, scala, and clojure? Erlang sucks at string handling which is a no-go in Web developing. Scala, Clojure, people don't even bother to setup JVM. Python is popular in some degree because it's installed by default on Linux and OS X.