[ryandvm]

Go is:

* Easier/safer than C

* Less dangerous than Javascript (statically typed and a good standard library)

* Much faster than Python

I think it's an excellent middle ground, compromise language. It's the centrist candidate of programming languages. Not the best at anything, but on average better than most.

[scruple]

I'd add that it also ships with an incredible toolset alongside the installation, has a fully featured standard library, cross compiling is typically painless, and you get a single binary executable out the other side.