On: Rob Pike interview

[apta]

Those are more the exception than the norm, and their decisions to do so come at significant costs.

[tapirl → apta]

At least from what I know, Go is an important factor making Dropbox/Uber/Cloudflare succeed. Go is absolutely not an exception in successful startups.

[apta → tapirl]

I know people in at least one of the companies you mentioned, and things look very different on the inside. They succeeded despite of the language, not because of it.

[tapirl → apta]

Surely, "it is not because of", every language is ok. But experienced programmers will choose the most suitable (most efficient, either in runtime performance and development speed/quality) one they think.