[Spiritus]

Then Python is a good alternative, it's basically already installed everywhere.

[Longhanks]

'Everywhere' being most Linux distributions, an outdated version (2.7) on OS X, no version at all on Windows.

[voidlogic]

Go and Python are not even close to being in the same league for performance in a majority of cases.

1: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=...

2: https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la...