Go has a ton of things going for it! I suggest Googling for more info, but a couple of my favorite features:
* I can use go fmt to format my code and it'll look nice. So many people use go fmt that most code bases are very easy to dive into. They all follow the standard!
* No magic! You write what you want and the whole formality of the thing forces you to write better code. May be a placebo effect, but I find myself writing less buggy code in Go.
* Compile to static binary you can just drop and run -anywhere-. No rvm gemsets, no rbenv, no bla bla bla - you want your code running, period.
Clearly you have never run across the same program, first in Perl, and then in Python, and felt the tangible differences in maintainability between the two implementations.
* I can use go fmt to format my code and it'll look nice. So many people use go fmt that most code bases are very easy to dive into. They all follow the standard!
* No magic! You write what you want and the whole formality of the thing forces you to write better code. May be a placebo effect, but I find myself writing less buggy code in Go.
* Compile to static binary you can just drop and run -anywhere-. No rvm gemsets, no rbenv, no bla bla bla - you want your code running, period.