I mean, what language got everything exactly right from day 0? Yes, Go started from a minimalist position, but that’s been a wildly successful decision—Go lacks a lot of the cruft of other languages. Go is an easily understandable language, it compiles super quickly, it has top notch tooling (e.g., compiling almost any Go project on any system with ‘go build’ and even cross compile by changing a couple of env vars), it compiles to relatively small[^1] static binaries by default, and it does all of this with pretty good performance.

[^1]: Someone is going to come in with some rant about how big a “hello world” binary is compared to C, as if this is emblematic of some real-world use case.