[luriel]

Go is relatively beginner friendly, is simpler and smaller than most languages around (even for example Python). Go code is concise but without dark magic (is easy to see what code does by just looking at it). And you can even read the whole language spec fairly easily.

[kibwen]

  > smaller than most languages around

I'm not certain that this is specific to Go, insamuch as it's a property of nearly all young languages. After 1.0, language complexity can only ever increase. Even Python has followed this trajectory, although Python should perhaps be commended for being willing to shed some of its complexity along the way (depending on how you view backwards-incompatible changes, some would say it should be denounced rather than commended).