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I started playing with Go in 2012 when I was doing professional C, C#, C++, Java, and Python. I stuck with it because almost everything was surprisingly easy. For example, I didn't have to learn an obscure DSL just to include dependencies! I didn't have to figure out how to wire together a "test target" in that DSL or evaluate a dozen test frameworks to get unit tests running! I could build and deploy a high-performance HTTP server with a single binary (no external apache/uwsgi/etc web server process)! And often without any third party dependencies at all! And idiomatic code ran 100x faster than Python, and on top of that there was headroom for minor optimizations (pulling allocations out of tight loops, basically). After a bit of experience, it as even easier than Python or JS thanks to static types.

> Might be easier than Java but Java has so much more community support (e.g Stackoverflow answers) it easily evens out.

This was true in the early days, but now Go is extensively covered in Stack Overflow. Of course, there aren't as many Go posts on SO as there are Java posts, but that's because Go is considerably simpler--there's less information to cover.