[sjroot]

I use both frequently, in and out of work. And I can’t state enough that people need to stop asking this question.

These languages - I would throw Swift in there as well - are “apples and oranges” and shouldn’t really be compared. Depending on your use case, they all have different merits over each other.

To actually make a worthwhile recommendation, you’d have to elaborate on what you mean by backend service. RESTful? gRPC? Something else? When it comes to the first two scenarios, I think Go enables more rapid development and has a stronger library ecosystem.