[elp]

Go is a lot closer in target market to Python than C and I can take a mostly competent python programmer and get them to a mostly competent Go programmer fairly quickly. Rust is all very wonderful but it's too hard for juniors to become productive in any reasonable time frame.

Go might be type unsafe compared to Rust but its staggeringly more type safe than any of the interpreted languages. Then you also have about the same speed of Java with instant startups and no memory bloat as a general purpose backed language its great.

I would sell my first born to get the ? operator for error handling that Rust has though. The "if err!= nil" stuff bugs the hell out of me.