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by dragonwriter 4243 days ago
> You should ponder why Erlang or Haskell achieved a fraction of Go's adoption despite being on the market 20+ years longer.

Because Google.

In longer form, because Google is big and Go is well-enough-adapted for problems Google has (there may or may not be better solutions, and there may be some NIH factor going on in Google favoring it, but its at least good enough), and because the fact that Google is big and behind Go, that gets it lots of attention and interest and use even in places where it may not be as well suited as alternatives or what it is replacing.