I think one reason to choose Go is simplicity. You can run, say, a JSON REST service and build it with TDD out of the box with only the standard libaries. It's

I think one reason to choose Go is simplicity. You can run, say, a JSON REST service and build it with TDD out of the box with only the standard libaries. It's also such a small language that you can pick it up quickly. I haven't done an serious Java development recently but my impression is that if I wanted to get up and running with it quickly there would be a ton of choices to make around frameworks, tooling, which conventions to stick to, etc. and it would all be difficult to navigate. (And maybe that's not even true, but if that's my impression I'm just gonna choose choose Go).