[tmountain]

Here are some arbitrary reasons that Go is worth a look:

It's easy to learn, tractable, consistent, performant, and safe.

It's great for writing services. The type system is predictable and catches a lot of problems ahead of time.

It's opinionated about basic stuff which helps avoid clutter (no unused variables or imports allowed, etc).

It fills a lot of the same niche as Python, Java, Ruby, etc, but with some distinct advantages when compared to each of them (and some drawbacks depending on your preferences).

Binaries are standalone, easy to compile (cross compilation), and easy to distribute.

It's fun (subjective, but I enjoy writing Go).