Yes, pedegree aside it I see many old and new programmers loving it. Now if I was Google I would be seriously looking at getting it into the android ecosystem

Yes, pedegree aside it I see many old and new programmers loving it. Now if I was Google I would be seriously looking at getting it into the android ecosystem so people can develop in GO as well as C for low level system codeing above the abilities of java on android. That said I'm a shell prompt type of chap and with that somewhat biased and blinkered in languages that you can code in vi. Certainly visual programming interfaces will have there day one day. After all much code is down to string libarys together and then stringing those functions/modules together until your pretty much coding lego style using off the shelf bricks with rare occasions of custom bricks being needed. That is still a way off from mainstream acceptance and closest break out into mainstream would of been the old mac card stack system (which was neat in its days though well dated now). So methods and approaches to coding change over time and languages adapt and some better designed to handle changes. C been good and the same could be said for GO by definition. But another way to look at this is what out of COBOL or GO will be around in years from now and you then get down to the main crux - is it used in production and needing code to be maintained and with that yes it is. Though different area's and platforms GO easily available for and known are different from COBOL (mainframe legacy bias) systems. If you asked a Linux dev to install GO then they would just do it, ask them to do the same with COBOL and they will be hitting google with a bewildered face. Yet both exist and are available, just different mentalities keep them going.