I've used Go sparingly so please take this with a grain of salt. I got productive quickly with Go and loved the simplicity and ease of development. The speed o

I've used Go sparingly so please take this with a grain of salt. I got productive quickly with Go and loved the simplicity and ease of development. The speed of compilation is amazing, and the programs run at a blazing speed. Then hit the wall and found myself repeating myself again and again. The lack of generics, pattern matching was really a deal breaker for me. I chose Elixir for another API backend, and I really loved it. Hex, the package manager, Phoenix framework, the rock solid Erlang/BEAM and the Elixir language itself was a breeze from Go. Even though it compiles slower, and sometimes Hex package would fk up package hierarchy, the whole experience was great. The IDE support is bit flaky, and I used ST3. I would highly recommend Elixir over Golang.