It's a successor to Python in that many of the non-Google big name early adopters are big Python shops - Cloudflare, Dropbox, etc. My company was almost all Pyt

It's a successor to Python in that many of the non-Google big name early adopters are big Python shops - Cloudflare, Dropbox, etc. My company was almost all Python on the server side and is now almost all Go. Don't think of "successor" as a similar-but-better language (like I consider C# to be to Java) but in terms of where the community comes from in general. Rob Pike has said how he expected Go to attract C developers and was surprised how it attracted Python-ers in droves.