According to TIOBE, 1% of programmers are using Go, whilst 23% are using Java or C++.
If that is to be believed, developers do not appear to prefer simple languages. Or, Java and C++ are simple languages. Or, language selection is not based on preference.
C# and Java both are a lot simpler than C++
i would even argue that by adding more features into Java and C#, a door was opened to PHP, Python, Ruby and now GO
i still stand by conclusion, that most developer prefer to move complexity to the solution and away from the language
and to be clear, i saying that this is a preference and taste issue, i am not saying that one is better than the other, i am not even saying that developers who prefer complex languages have bad taste ... it is just the way it is ... others have expressed it in more length
Hence how we end up with factory-factory classes, aspect oriented programming, patterns and stuff.
On Go's case, how we now have n variants of code generation libraries or multiple solutions to sort out dependencies and vendoring.
GoSpring and GoEE, similar to Java 1.2 days, should be quite interesting to see.