[cixin]

Well, php is still hugely popular. I think it's not an unreasonable choice (though I personally don't enjoy using it, I can see the business case).

Go feels like a much smaller, similar language though. For me, one of the key features of Go is that it's easy to refactor.

This comes partly from its lack of OO and other features, which are no doubt useful but often create more dependencies between different parts of a codebase.

In my personal programming style, I end up refactoring at lot, Go seems to make this easy.

It's naturally also possible to program like this in other languages. But Go seems to encourage and somewhat enforce it.

Due to a lack of easily abused language features I can also see it being a language well suited to teams where skill levels vary significantly.