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Because Go only exists due to a trio that doesn't like C++, has fought against Java 20 years ago and lost (Inferno and Limbo), and is pretty much the atenthesis of the feature rich capabilities of Java, Kotlin and C++, the official Android languages.

They hit jackpot with Kubernetes and Docker taking off after their pivot to Go.



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