I’ve kicked the tires with a lot of languages, and always end up coming back to Go. It’s a pretty subpar language, but it hits a sweet spot that nothing else does: fast builds, decent tooling, relatively small single binary deployment, pretty good performance out of the box, decent stdlib. I could go on.

I want to use Ocaml or a Lisp or a number of other languages, but Go really does the entire package better than anything I’ve looked at.