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Go (a.k.a. Golang) is one of the languages people are most interested in. As of April, 2018, it stands at 19th place in the TIOBE index. More and more people are switching from PHP, Node.js, and other languages to Go and using it in production. A lot of cool software (like Kubernetes, Docker, and Heroku CLI) is written using Go.

So, what is Go’s key to success? There are a lot of things inside the language that make it really cool. But one of the main things that made Go so popular is its simplicity, as pointed out by one of its creators, Rob Pike.

Simplicity is cool: You don’t need to learn a lot of keywords. It makes language learning very easy and fast. However, on the other hand, sometimes developers lack some features that they have in other languages and, therefore, they need to code workarounds or write

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