alt Hacker NewsBEAM+OTP is a masterclass in using concurrency to achieve fault tolerance. But Go achieves its "magic" by feeling like the lingua francas of programming, C and C++. Go doesn't make the developer learn too many new concepts. The runtime is self enclosed in the final binary. This commitment to the familiar programming patterns also means it allows for concurrency anti-patterns like shared memory which for Erlang+OTP's design principles is verboten.
Slightly irrelevant but that's a part of my issue with Go. I personally feel the chances are slim that "familiar programming concepts" (i.e. as taught by most intro CS courses) are optimal by themselves. And I know it's an old thing, but the fact that Go was once adamantly against generics...