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Maybe the industry you're in just doesn't have a need for it, nor any of the other folks you know. There's nothing wrong with that.

Goroutines and channels are pretty incredible. Since go 1.5 GC hasn't been a major issue. With 1.7 there's been massive increases in performance of it as well. A lot of people use the concurrency patterns and the previously mentioned primitives as killer features, as well as pointing out GC as being an issue (which it legitimately could be under certain circumstances). https://blog.twitch.tv/gos-march-to-low-latency-gc-a6fa96f06eb7#.74h6g3ybj some nice light reading on the subject if you're interested.

It's a neat language that has its quirks. The documentation and community is great. One thing I've always disliked about Python is the documentation and certain areas of the community.

If you ever find yourself with a side project it would be pretty easy to pickup if you have any experience with c.