I don't think anybody argues that Go is the most performant language available. If performance is your main requirement, at the expense of everything else, the

I don't think anybody argues that Go is the most performant language available. If performance is your main requirement, at the expense of everything else, then Go is definitely not a good choice. Many consider it a good compromies between performance, readability, syntax, ecosystem, concurrency support etc..., and I believe it is what their designers aimed for originally. And I'm not saying that other languages do not offer similar compromises, it's nice to have options.