Why Go

Facts

• Go is boring
• Go does not follow a clear paradigm
• Go provides no esoteric features
• Go provides nothing really new
• Go contains stumbling blocks
• Go is not perfect

But

• Go is quite simple, just one HTML page for the language specification
• Go contains a comprehensive standard library
• Go compiles very fast
• Go compiles into one binary containing all needed library code
• Go allows cross-compiling
• Go provides garbage collection
• Go executes very fast
• Go is pragmatic

Quote

It’s better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

– Oscar Wilde