[goatlover]

Or Haskell is just too different from what most programmers are familiar with. It's not really Go versus Haskell, It's Haskell/Ocaml/ML/Lisp versus mainstream languages.

It's also not like Go is the only popular language. Other popular languages like Javascript, C# or Python have plenty of features and magic. Also, Elixir seems to be doing pretty well, so maybe that's a way for functional languages to gain traction.

Elixir, being newer, was made with modern environments and tooling in mind. Go has the same advantage.

[goatlover]

And really, it's Go versus C++, C# and Java that's the actual comparison, not Haskell. That's what Go competes with, and then Python, Ruby, PHP and Node on the web server side.

Lauding Go's success over Haskell is not really saying much.

[NateDad]

To be fair, you'll never see me compare Go to Haskell :)