I'm not looking for a job, but I'm often invited to chat with a company's dev team, and I get a chance to see what they are doing and how they are doing it. The last company I visited was a handful of Physics Ph.D.s. They were writing control software.

Obviously, this team was really smart, but they were not high power software developers. They weren't ex-kernel developers and they didn't write 3D game engines in their spare time. They were just really smart guys that knew how to program.

They were using go, and I felt like that was a great choice for them. Fast enough performance, comfortable development, and easy enough to understand. This is what I really like about go.

Languages like Haskell and Common Lisp are popular topics here on HN, but they'd be poor choices for a startup made up of domain experts that aren't CS-majors. I'm sure these guys could have learned Rust or even modern C++, but with go they could get started in a language that wouldn't take a year of experience to use correctly.

For my many little personal projects, I like python, but for team projects were there will be a mix of abilities go seems like a good choice.