"Superior error handling and easier debugging are helping it gain popularity over Python and R"

What the fuck are they talking about? I thought a "feature" of Go is that it DOESN'T have any error handling, and it forces you to catch exceptions yourself? Last I checked python already has a great solution for this built in.

Ah, the programming language hype train. There's always a new bandwagon to jump on, isn't there?

Mentions "engineered" three times, but "pragmatic" only once. Not conformant with the Go Advocacy Playbook.

Prediction: 5 years from now Go will be viewed with similar scorn to Java

Don't know why other people's reason of choosing Go.

I don't actually like the Go itself, I use Go because the batteries it includes, and most of them are cross platform.

Sure, other language can do it with third-party lib management (npm, composer, crate etc), but then you have do deal with lib-associated problems (Log, error handling, bug, deprecation and license etc), and that is troubling.