[mwsherman]

Well, I think one answer if that you can quickly have a running web app without another piece of software. This is an attractive quality of Node, too. In fact, if a language doesn’t have a “5 lines to a web app” demo, I consider it insufficient.

I’d posit that 90+% of apps don’t need another http server. Big apps have good reasons for a dedicated http server – unifying SSL termination, load balancing – but they are a minority.

There is nothing to to prevent you from putting nginx in front of the Go app if that’s better.