It was also one of the first &quot;new&quot; languages coming out that had backing of a big company.<p>This broke the &quot;We <i>MUST</i> use only one of the top 5 languages or else&quot; taboo which then allowed things to proliferate.<p>Go showcases many of the mistakes of the first mover.<p>Although, to be fair, they aren&#x27;t all necessarily mistakes.  Go has as an <i>OVERRIDING</i> design constraint to be able to compile, very quickly, an absolutely enormous, disjoint codebase.  And, it&#x27;s not clear that any of the other languages can do that.<p>I, in my personal use of programming languages, don&#x27;t care about that particular design constraint, so I&#x27;m not willing to give up other things in a programming language in service of that particular goal.