Statically typed

Go is a statically typed language. This means that once a variable has been declared, its type cannot change. For example, x := 4 means that x is now 4. If I were to change this to a string, it would fail.

Concise

Hello world in Java is extremely complex:

public class HelloWorld {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("Hello, World!");
  }
}

Although Python is simpler, Go is still not nearly as verbose as Java:

package main

func main() {
    println("Hello, World!")
}

camelCase

I get that some people prefer snake_case to camelCase, but I like camelCase. And seeing as most of the other languages I use are supposed to use snake_case, it's nice to use camelCase every so often.

Easy to learn

Alright, sure, I tried like ten languages before settling on Go, so I did have experience. However, it's still extremely easy to learn. It took me about two days to figure out how to do most things, which was fairly quick, and I loved it.

Other

Go is a compiled language, making it extremely rapid.
It comes with a built-in formatter (go fmt <filename>)
It's new-ish, so the developers learnt from other languages' mistakes
It has a wide variety of applications, from webdev to CLI apps.

Have you tried Go? Did you like it?