[lelanthran]

If we're using "did not meet the stated goal" as a bar for success, then Java also "failed", because it was developed as an embedded systems language and only pivoted to enterprise applications after being a dismal and abject failure at the stated goal.

If Java is not a failure then neither is Go.

If Go is a failure then so is Java.

Personally I think it is inaccurate to judge a mainstream, popular and widely adopted language as a failure just because it did not meet the goal set at the initiation of the project, prior to even the first line of code getting written.