Learning languages for their new ideas is fine, but there are other reasons you might want to learn a language. For example, because it is a good language for t

Learning languages for their new ideas is fine, but there are other reasons you might want to learn a language. For example, because it is a good language for the specific kind of program that you want to write. Go hits some sweet spot, apparently, since some people are happier using it than anything else they had tried. If no "new ideas" are going to help them, why should they chose more "innovative" languages instead of Go?