I happen to love the C language, and my brain is very much tuned to how it works and the world view that it embodies. Go feels to me like veteran C language experts made a thoughtful evolutionary step forward. It's certainly not on the cutting edge of programming language theory, but it has solidly moved the baseline ahead. It's a highly opinionated language, but if you approach those opinions with an open mind, you'll find it has a sense of internal coherence that is both tasteful and pragmatic.

Fast compilation speed, easy integration with C, and the "one large static binary" are probably my favourite features, although I do wish those binary sizes weren't quite so large...