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I agree with your take on this. Part of language arguments roots in the "assumptions of the Blub Paradox": that there exists some strict ordering among languages (and therefore some language "blub" that is superior to some and inferior to others).

I find this hypothesis questionable. It's likely that language "power" in the real world looks more like a loosely-ordered graph, with plenty of bidirectionals tagged with things like "If you are doing lots of matrix algebra" or "If you need the thing to run on a Raspberry Pi." Go solves a specific domain I operate in (data structure transformation and web services) really quite well---well enough that I can move from making the problem fit the language to solving the problem with small amounts of work, without worrying that I'll create a testing nightmare for myself in the future.

When I find a task too big for Go, I'll amend my feelings on the issue.