[pjmlp]

Kubernetes was prototyped in Java and rewritten in Go due to Go bias of some team members, which forced a rewrite into Go.

Source: A couple of talks at FOSDEM.

Don't attribute to technology the outcome of political decisions.

I also used to get things done in TASM.

[holografix]

Have you stopped to consider why those team members had a bias towards Go? Maybe it’s for a reason.

Maybe the people behind Istio, InfluxDB, Docker, Traefik, Terraform, etc also chose the “archaic” Go for “political reasons”.