[sally1620]

I don't think Go lies about what it is. It is just a victim of its popularity.

The authors clearly say that is designed for writing scalable networked services. And they definitely don't care about GUIs, Windows, embedded, etc.

Overzealous programmers are constantly taking Go where it is not meant to be and complain about its shortcomings. Go's simplicity means that it makes a lot of assumptions about the system. I think authors should have been more upfront and explicit about this.