I've just started learning Go as a very long time Rubyist. I really enjoy both languages for very different reasons. In Ruby, I can write code that really makes me happy to read. Enumerable is just wonderful. You can go a long way in Ruby without writing a single if statement. It's great. If I'm working on a solo-project, it's the language I'd choose every time. But working with inexperienced or people who "know" Ruby, but never adopted "the Ruby way" is a nightmare. Ruby code, written poorly, can be extremely brutal to follow. When the great deal of freedom Ruby offers isn't handled responsibly, a hot mess can ensue.

Go is the opposite. It's great, as you say, because it's dirt simple. It's a brutalist get-the-job-done kind of language, and I think if I were to start a company working with other engineers, I'd absolutely choose Go for that reason. It's easy to read. It's easy to reason about. And there's very little implicitness in it.