One more thing to note (on this post that is already on page 2 of HN after 47 minutes):

To me, as a scripter-ops kind of person, Go is useful as a Python variant. You get types, you get a huge standard library, and much of ops is network-based communication and glue code. The last job I had, I was tasked with rewriting a moderate Python lambda into golang as a POC for ease of use, and performance.

I relearned the basics of go in about two days, used google and docs copiously, but otherwise did not change the structure of the program.

The execution time was cut in half! It's an easy language to get using quickly and serves that purpose well. I wonder if the author could acknowledge the comparison to Python.