> LinuxFR: Why Go?<p>> Jérôme Petazzoni [co-founder of Docker Inc.]: On the non-technical terms, Go is a little Switzerland of modern languages. If we chose Python, Ruby community would growled. If we chose Ruby, Python community would growl (and we probably would have gone for fools, because at the beginning of the project, the majority of the team was more comfortable in Python in Ruby). If you chose Java, everyone would have bitched!<p><i>"Go is a little Switzerland of modern languages"</i> is my new favorite expression.