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by kakwa_ 42 days ago
After having way too strong opinions about this, and even if Go is my go to language, I've stopped caring for this kind of statements.

In the end, the language doesn't really matter and extremely rarely is the bottleneck.

Python, Java, Go, C#, PHP, Node, Ruby or Scala, for backend stuff, all these languages can do the work 99% of the time. They all have well developed ecosystems, and are sufficiently mainstream to easily find developers.

In the end, these languages are just variants of the same tool, and I find more interesting to just pick one and build something with it, rather than bickering endlessly about which one is better.