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We've been using Go for our startup as well and love it. Having programmed in a variety of languages, including Java, Scala, and Python, I have to say that Go has been as easy to work with if not easier than my previous experiences with other languages. Particularly awesome is the tooling they've built around the language. Dependency management is a cakewalk compared to other systems (say goodbye to Spring/Maven/etc. headaches) and compile time is extremely fast. Plus you get all the benefits of static type checking without much verbosity.