I'm not a C++ guy, but I will say the most interesting thing about Go to me is that it's a smallish, clean, staticly-typed language that gives a great day-to-da

I'm not a C++ guy, but I will say the most interesting thing about Go to me is that it's a smallish, clean, staticly-typed language that gives a great day-to-day development experience. It also comes with a lot of nice tools for formatting code, documentation, dependency management, etc. Switching from Ruby or PHP is pretty easy because you get the same (or better) developer experience with excellent performance and nice built-in libs. For writing web services, Go is pretty much ready to roll out of the box. I think writing Go is fun. I'm not sure that it matters why other programmers do or don't like Go. I think it's great.