[Sachaniman]

When I first encountered Go in 2015, it was exciting because it made concurrent programming accessible and easy compared to the competition. Fast forward to 2020, and many languages have either caught up or improved on the advances Go made (e.g. Kotlin, Rust, Elixir, Scala, etc.). That being said, I think you might be in a bubble if you don't know anyone using Go. It's everywhere nowadays, for better or worse.

I agree with you that I think they're slow to improve. I'm not sure if innovation is necessary though, since most people rely on the language being stable going forward.

Personally I struggle with deciding when to use Go for a new project. With so many languages now supporting different concurrency paradigms, and containers abstracting away prior deployment pain points, I'm not sure why I'd reach for Go over any of the others.