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To be fair

> Along comes Go

Really means

> Along comes Google

It's nothing against Go, but we have to be realistic that having Google's weight behind it significantly increases its marketing while also making business owners a little more comfortable (aka - a modern nobody ever got fired for buying IBM).

There are a lot of frontend frameworks out there but React and Angular dominate largely because of Facebook and Google's influence.

That said, every language has tradeoffs. All you have to be able to do in order to have a rational conversation is to acknowledge those tradeoffs. Go has some tradeoffs but there's a general feeling that the resulting balance is worth it.

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> we have to be realistic that having Google's weight behind it significantly increases its marketing

It also increases no of expert engineers contributing to project full time.