It has been boring from the start.

It would be an interesting language, had it been released at the time of any of its influences, Oberon in 1987, Limbo in 1995.

Back when the type system ideas from CLU, Standard ML, Cedar were still taking off among industrial programming languages.

The most non boring thing you can say about it is that it's terrible for ignoring most of what we've learned in the past couple decades of programming language design.

That generates plenty of excitement.

Become? Always has been.

It was intentionally designed for programmers with limited skill.

Go language creator Rob Pike:

> The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.