It has higher level ergonomics that something like rust lacks (as much as I like rust myself), doesn’t have many of the pitfalls of Go (error handling is much better for example) and is relatively easy to pickup.

It’s not perfect by any means, it has several issues but it’s quickly becoming my preferred language as well for knocking out projects.

Rust and Swift are pretty much the only two choices and Rust is arguably much more pain in the ass for the average joe enterprise coder.