I have really mixed feelings about Go. 2-3 years ago we went on the train and (re)wrote a bunch of stuff in Go.
We absolutely 100% loved it for small contained pieces like monitoring checks.
When doing a basically boring API with user management some of us found it ok at best, others (like me) really hated it with a passion. Every task that should take 20 minutes and 20 lines of code in any web-first ecosystem (php+symfony, rails, flask) would take 3x as long with 2x as many lines of code, also because of "if err != nil". Sure, a lot of it might have been "Go beginners" but it just never felt smooth for controller-heavy web development.
We absolutely 100% loved it for small contained pieces like monitoring checks.
When doing a basically boring API with user management some of us found it ok at best, others (like me) really hated it with a passion. Every task that should take 20 minutes and 20 lines of code in any web-first ecosystem (php+symfony, rails, flask) would take 3x as long with 2x as many lines of code, also because of "if err != nil". Sure, a lot of it might have been "Go beginners" but it just never felt smooth for controller-heavy web development.