In addition to the points already brought up by sibling comments: Go is centred around automatic memory management. The downside to that is that Go might not ev

In addition to the points already brought up by sibling comments: Go is centred around automatic memory management. The downside to that is that Go might not ever be suited for certain domains: the upside is that automatic memory management is good enough for arguably most domains. Now, consider that many Go developers are coming from scripting languages; using Go gives them a lot of the performance boost, without also having to worry about the lifetime of their memory. And if they were using Python beforehand, chances are that implementing everything in C/C++/Rust instead won't really be necessary for them. Go gives good enough performance. This overall comparison might be a dead end, though. After all, we're comparing languages that effectively only have in common that they seem to have been spawned at vaguely the same time. Their philosophies are totally different.