The presentation focuses a lot on [web] servers and google scale, but I found that Go also works quite well for applications/services on embedded linux systems.

The presentation focuses a lot on [web] servers and google scale, but I found that Go also works quite well for applications/services on embedded linux systems. Main pros for me there are: - Easy to cross compile and deploy - Daemons often need to do a lot of communication (some also for providing web APIs) and need to embrace concurrency. Both are covered very well by Go's ecosystem. - Compile-to-binary eases distribution concerns in cases where you want to avoid to publish all source code (and thereby know-how) compared to VM languages or scripting languages.