I often see this argument coming about. Someone talks about how great language E is because it has feature X. Then someone else comes along and says languages

I often see this argument coming about. Someone talks about how great language E is because it has feature X. Then someone else comes along and says languages A, B, C, and D also have X. As though that somehow diminishes the value of having feature X in E. Go doesn't try to be full of fancy new ideas. Most of the ideas come from other languages. Go tries to be the best collection of known ideas that it can be, examining benefits and tradeoffs each step of the way and giving sound reasoning for each decision. Recently I found myself slightly annoyed that they use hg instead of git. Sure enough, I found an explanation in the FAQ. http://golang.org/doc/faq http://golang.org/doc/faq