[VeejayRampay]

I wonder, aren't there specific attributes of the Go language that makes it a particularly good fit for things like Docker/Kubernetes?

[ChocolateGod]

Easy to learn language and don't have to worry that much about memory, seen as a modern replacement of C in userspace, coroutines are easy to use and suit the lifecycle of network applications.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Compared to both Python and Java, no runtime or packages to fuss with, just builds one static exe

[pjmlp]

Java ecosystem is rather large, there have existed AOT compilers since around 2000, even if they had a price tag, and naturaly modern devs are allergic to pay for tools.

Those devs are now served with GraalVM and OpenJ9, as free beer AOT compilers for Java.

[desdenova]

The only attribute of the language is hijacking Google's marketing to become relevant.

It's a terrible language, which has no practical reason to exist.