[luriel]

Go has been surprisingly reliable and stable, even before it hit 1.0 a few months ago quite a few people (including Google) were using it in production: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go

With Go 1.0 there is an even greater focus on stability: http://golang.org/doc/go1compat.html

Go is also quite different from most 'new' languages, many people find it to be the most fun language they have used in a long time (even after using many other new languages).

This might be in part because one of the things that makes Go special (and my favorite "feature") is not just the features it has, but all the stuff it doesn't have.

Go is simple and doesn't get on the way and lets you focus on the problem, other "new" languages are often described as "powerful", but much of the work involves using their "features", when Go is more often described as productive, the focus is not in the language and its features but on the problem you are trying to solve and the language gets out of the way.