[alttag]

Maybe I missed it, but the things that would convince me are a) a large, strong community, b) extensive documentation, and c) code examples in the article.

Seeing no references to any of these, I don't find the article terribly persuasive.

[genwin]

Examples for Golang are sparse compared to PHP-land. The books help a lot on that. Other than that I haven't had an issue with finding stuff online. The official documentation is extensive when you know how to look for it (namely, "golang <package name>". Hopefully in the future the official documentation will have many more examples.

[malsme]

Also, hosting. Reason I like PHP for personal projects is the hosting is so much more ubiquitous.