Therefore, I think they should make Go suitable to be used as an intermediate language (the compiler would become a back-end). Having Go as a compiler back-end could spawn a lot of interesting new languages.
The JVM can support goroutines (similar to Quasar Fibers) and the various GC implementations are significantly more advanced than what Go has. But I suspect Go is popular mostly for its simplicity than features.
Definitely. I think there are a couple of reasons:
* It's familiar to anyone who knows C-like languages.
* The tooling is really good for such a young language (go get, go fmt, goimports, pprof, etc.).
* Java's tooling is still lightyears ahead, but a significant chunk of programmers dislikes the JVM for various reasons.
* It integrates well with the UNIX/C environment.
* Simplicity (someone mentioned in a thread a couple of days ago: Go seems to look what C++ does, and then does exactly the opposite).
With C, which is custom-data-structure land (and besides pointer use is encouraged) you can get by.
But Go purports to be safe and modern and uses a GC.