Even more proof Go is the best choice for most mid to large size coding jobs that do not demand triple-a gaming performance.
https://blog.khanacademy.org/half-a-million-lines-of-go/
They concluded:
To summarize:
Yep, Go is more verbose in general than Python… But we like it! It’s fast, the tooling is solid, and it runs well in production
Our engineers come from a variety of programming backgrounds, so we certainly do have a diversity of opinion on Go vs. other languages. That said, Go is doing the job we “hired” it to do when we started Goliath, and we’re thankful for the team driving its continued evolution and the community that has built up around it!
This is a company that used Go for what it is good for (not like the fucking dumb-asses at Discord who tried to use it for something they should have used Erlang for from the beginning). It’s good to see reasonable, well-research conclusions from people who might not even use Go as their first pick.