[adtac]

Imagine a multidimensional matrix with various payment methods, local regulations, cloud providers, third party dependencies, web/mobile platforms, etc. Then also add more dimensions for internal things like accounting, hiring, payroll, promotions, compliance, security, monitoring, etc. Then double it for Uber Eats or whatever.

There's a lot of overlap and some invalid combinations, but you're still left with a huge number of combinations where Uber must simply work. And every time you add a new thing to this list, the total number of combinations grows polynomially.

(Also, Go is slightly more verbose than most languages. I think that's a feature and not a bug, but it's one more reason.)

[adra]

Dang, a little more verbose? Understatement of a lifetime. It's fine, if you like it not whatever, but it is quite a bit more verbose than many languages that I've used. My number 1 qualms go is with such simple building blocks requiring a bunch of redundant boiler plate. You're welcome to disagree with my opinion here.

A lot of people seems to gravitate toward languages with less dense cognitive load. I have learned to love kotlin, but its also a super dense set of syntax to power it's very expressive language.