Presumably the post above was referring to HTTP-based services, which of course don't face issues of cross-language ABI compatibility. In this case Go is often

Presumably the post above was referring to HTTP-based services, which of course don't face issues of cross-language ABI compatibility. In this case Go is often much faster than Ruby, Python, JS, etc., while still allowing relatively quick development compared to even faster, yet lower level, languages such as C/C++.