Dynamic languages generally enable faster iteration in the early stages of a project, but once you have a large, mature codebase, static types allow you to work

Dynamic languages generally enable faster iteration in the early stages of a project, but once you have a large, mature codebase, static types allow you to work faster and produce fewer bugs. A more performant language will also run your test suite faster which can have a big impact as a project gets very large. Also, while I agree Go’s error handling isn’t very elegant, it does force you to explicitly consider every potential error, which in my experience makes uncaught errors far less likely than a language with bubbling exceptions.