As someone who writes both, it's even difficult to compare these as they are apples and oranges. Elixir (due to Erlang base) is great for long-running or distr

As someone who writes both, it's even difficult to compare these as they are apples and oranges. Elixir (due to Erlang base) is great for long-running or distributed services and includes tooling to, for example, easily introspect the state/memory usage of your services down to a single mutable data structure, to heal from failures, and to hot-swap upgrade/code while the server is still running, and to perform node-to-node RPC. Go would be a replacement for something that was previously written in C/C++, that may need concurrency, and that should compile to native code. You get very fine-grained control of everything from network to file operations and excellent concurrency constructs. A web crawler, a device driver, or writing an Nginx/HAProxy-type daemon, all may be great example use cases. One could write their next social network/app backend using Go (just as one could do it in C), but it would probably take more work than just using a higher-level language.