[segfaltnh]

It's already quite popular. I'm less convinced there's a large pile of people wishing for a fairly high performance garbage collected language that are not using Go because of this. There just aren't many viable alternatives.

[ReleaseCandidat]

Java and C# being the obvious (and more performant) alternatives. And compared to them, Go already wins because of not being, well, "enterprisey". And with that I mean less the languages itself, but also the whole ecosystem around them.

[pjmlp]

Go's is already "enterprisey" enough, thanks to Kubernetes ecosystem.

[wordofx]

For the 3 people who actually need Kubernetes.

[valenterry]

There are definitely lots, I'm one of them. I use Scala, which is very powerful and imho much nicer language than golang. But the tooling and other support is slow and subpar. But I just can't go back to a brain-dead language(!) like golang because it hurts to program in such languages to me. So I hope that either golang catches up with Scala's features, or that Scala catches up with golangs tooling.

And I think there are many similar people like me.

[valyala]

Scala is overcomplicated esoteric programming language. It is great for obfuscation contests. It is awful for production code, since Scala code lacks maintainability, readability and simplicity properties.

[valenterry]

I guess we have different opinions. Maybe you had some bad experiences in the past? Scala 3 is very different from Scala 2 many years ago

There are few languages that are safer and easier to maintain, imho. The typesafety is superb.