I've seen posts where "it's from Google" is cited as sufficient explanation for taking an interest in the language. If Go was a random project on GitHub there i

I've seen posts where "it's from Google" is cited as sufficient explanation for taking an interest in the language. If Go was a random project on GitHub there is very little chance that I would have given it a second look, let alone learning it (which I am presently doing). I have great respect for projects which start out as random GitHub projects and succeed without having the advantage of a name like Google to give them street cred. Most of the negative Go posts I've seen are to do with limitations of the language and performance relative to JVM languages. As much as I think go has a lot going for it I'm not about to claim that it's anywhere near as expressive as Python or even Scala. There has also been some frustration about denials over the performance gap between Go and the JVM despite very clear data in favor of the JVM. I'm not as bothered by the performance gap as I am about the head-in-the-sand denials. The JVM's have been optimized for 15+ years, so it's ok to admit it may be a few more years before performance can match the JVM.