Go is modern/faster Python.

- It was explicitly intended to "feel dynamically-typed"

- Tries to live by the zen of Python (more than Python itself!)

- Was built during the time it was fashionable to use Python for the kinds of systems it was designed for, with Google thinking at the time that they would benefit from moving their C++ systems to that model if they could avoid incurring the performance problems associated with Python. Guido Van Rossum was also employed at Google during this time. They were invested in that sort of direction.

- Often reads just like Python (when one hasn't gone deep down the rabbit hole of all the crazy Python features)