Once Go is installed, I can make a simple web app from scratch that displays parameters from the URL or request body in just over 95 seconds with Go, using only the standard library. I can cross-compile it for another OS and architecture, then deploy a single binary file without worrying about dependencies, dynamic linking, or segfaults.
Try doing that in C/C++.
Maybe a better comparison is to more systems-level applications like you might code up in C. The same benefits carry over to those, without a significant performance hit (usually).
(And to be fair, sometimes C/C++ is the better tool for the job. But give it a shot; Go is pretty handy when you don't need to drop down to lots of unsafe memory and CPU operations.)
By the way, your existing C skills will be very useful in Go. For example, struct fields will still be padded unless you pack them carefully. Your experience with buffers, streams, memory allocation, and data structures will definitely not be wasted in Go.
Try doing that in C/C++.
Maybe a better comparison is to more systems-level applications like you might code up in C. The same benefits carry over to those, without a significant performance hit (usually).
(And to be fair, sometimes C/C++ is the better tool for the job. But give it a shot; Go is pretty handy when you don't need to drop down to lots of unsafe memory and CPU operations.)
By the way, your existing C skills will be very useful in Go. For example, struct fields will still be padded unless you pack them carefully. Your experience with buffers, streams, memory allocation, and data structures will definitely not be wasted in Go.