Comment by throwaway894345

It’s mostly that Go was already pioneering how to build a programming language that had an amazing scheduler, garbage collector, compiler, package manager, formatter, etc. They spent all of their “innovation budget” on the most important—and most neglected—features of any programming language and allowed the language itself to be pretty boring.

Eventually Go’s runtime and tooling will be bog standard and everyone will think of them as boring and then people will start building more exciting languages on top of them. Assuming AI doesn’t blow everything up.