IMO, people like hype, and a lot of the time, they are not aware of what better alternatives exist. If Go did not have Google or Ken or Pike as names behind it,

IMO, people like hype, and a lot of the time, they are not aware of what better alternatives exist. If Go did not have Google or Ken or Pike as names behind it, do you think it would have gone anywhere? It doesn't really offer anything special compared to more expressive and safer languages like Scala and Rust for instance. You can see it right here in the comments: someone said that Go is a memory safe language. It is not any more safer than Java is in that regard. We need languages that are safer than Java and Go.