[lossolo]

A lot of your claims about Go are false.

> It's a language that's pretty good for small web services.

I know projects in production running HUGE web services written in Go serving millions of reqs/s. If that's small for you then I don't know what large is. Look at techempower benchmarks[1] and additionally compare the source of actix-raw (Rust) to fasthttp (Go).

OS written in Go: In experiments comparing nearly identical system call, page fault, and context switch code paths written in Go and C, the Go version was 5% to 15% slower.

Read the paper[2]

1. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r16&hw=...

2. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi18-cutler.pdf