[sandij]

Go has an excellent standard library for cryptography primitives with well-established best practices. It was designed and is maintained in a principled way that likely appeals to more cryptography engineers. Also see this answer by one of its maintainers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/zukgfq/comment/j1l2...

Some additional reasoning why having a strong standard library is important:

https://www.cryptologie.net/article/505/why-not-rust-for-sec...