[elvlysh]

How come a reinvention of a 30 year old wheel is more successful and popular than pretty much every language that attempted to evolve the wheel during that time?

"It's because people who like Go are stupid and companies need stupid people to write stupid code" may have made you feel smug and secure during the last 15 years, but what about the next 15? Or the 15 after that? Are you still going to be complaining about the stupid 70 year old wheel made by that dumb guy Pike that you hate so much?

[int_19h]

If you really want to make an argument from popularity, C, C++, C#, and Java are all more popular than Go.

[elvlysh]

Yes, and all are equally offensive to the average Go hater, all of them have NULL, and all of them have terrible error handling. It's not "argument from popularity", it's "argument from success". Some things succeed. Other things don't. It would be worthwhile for you to investigate why things succeed despite all the hangups you have with their flaws instead of lamenting them because the things you like aren't succeeding.