&gt; It&#x27;s users write blog posts about that deliberate balance of simplicity and power they encountered in language, which made them productive.<p>Compared to <i>what</i>?  Java at the time Go was introduced?  Sure.  Java now?  Um, I think I&#x27;d probably rather use modern Java than Go, thanks (although I&#x27;d probably reach for Clojure instead).  And I&#x27;m a <i>Python</i> guy  ...<p>Go solved one problem well (compilation times of large codebases) and was the first introduction for a lot of programmers to <i>any</i> solution for concurrency.<p>Everything else is kinda ... mediocre.<p>But, let me be as nice as I can be.  Go solves programming problems that large companies have.  Sound like several familiar languages of the past?