quick summary: * no coding style flamewars * it has familiar syntax * builtin concurrency model * it has gc * it is fast * static types

quick summary: * no coding style flamewars * it has familiar syntax * builtin concurrency model * it has gc * it is fast * static types that don't get in the way If you compare this list to popular up-and-coming ecosystems from the 90s (java, python, C, C++, Ruby), okay, concurrency is a big win and everything else, maybe go is a little bit better. If you compare to other popular up-and-coming ecosystems in 2013 that have a similar sized following as Go (Scala, Clojure, Haskell, Node, Rust)... Well, at least Go beats Node. and Haskell appeared in 1990.