The decision was between Node, Qt, and Go. At the end of the day, we wanted the possibility to share code between the client and server and Go's server side sup

The decision was between Node, Qt, and Go. At the end of the day, we wanted the possibility to share code between the client and server and Go's server side support is much better than Qt's so we decided to implement it in Go. Go is great for command line tools and being able to cross-compile a Windows binary from a Mac is awesome. Go's static binary approach made deployment trivial in comparison to Node so that made it a winner :)