[moomoo11]

Go is great, but it has garbage collection (you don't manage memory directly) whereas c++ and rust do not.

It is apples and oranges, in that regard. Some node guy isn't going to just go and pick up rust/c++ because they're used for quite different purposes.

As a general purpose language, Go is amazing. In fact, it is what I use day to day for all my needs. For my current business needs it is what all our services are written in. They are fast, and the go concurrency model honestly makes it pretty easy for me to forego a lot of extra add-on technologies that are not yet required at my stage and KISS.

For anything like super high perf, systems programming, embedded, etc. you will want to use c++ or rust.