The Google name surely gets a lot of people&#x27;s attention.  But if the language actually sucked, it&#x27;s not going to matter. This is a tool that you have to use EVERY DAY.  The Google name is far from a guaranteed hit maker.  See Google Plus, Google Wave, etc.<p>That&#x27;s like saying Dale Earnhardt could recommend driving a Gremlin... sure, it would get a lot of people to go for a test drive, and a lot of those people would then run away.<p>I fully admit I clinked on the link to the Go website purely because it was from a big name... the exact same thing I did for Hack and Swift and Rust.  But I don&#x27;t write code in Hack or Swift or Rust.  I write code in Go.<p>Sure, I may have missed some really great language put out by an obscure name that never made it to Hacker News.  But then again, evidently so did everyone else.<p>So why do I write code in Go?  Because the language and the ecosystem around it are really good.  Because I feel like I can understand any piece of code written in it without needing a PhD from Stanford.  Because I feel like it pushes people towards simple, straightforward solutions.<p>Past that first click, the only thing Google means to me is a guaranteed check to pay the bills of all the great people working on the project.