[skybrian]

Having tried to use Go for analytics, I agree that it's not a good fit for that use case. (It does work well for scripts and simple servers, though.)

[snaky]

Looking at things people write in Go, I can't shake the feeling Go is a new /bin/sh with xinetd built in.

[drvdevd]

The way I personally use it ... I'd say you're exactly right. And adding that to an easy cross compilation/platform story that can side-step C toolchains in many cases, garbage collection, and intelligible concurrency, and you've got an extremely useful tool.

[snaky]

So the main reasons for Go are the fact 'coproc' keyword added to Bash since version 4 is still considered experimental[1] and the fact that a vast majority of modern developers don't know shell good enough.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/comments/4ksl7w/golanglike_gor...