I'll add - the synchronous by default, typed nature of Golang creates a massive amount of bookkeeping, as well as some fault tolerance issues you can walk into

I'll add - the synchronous by default, typed nature of Golang creates a massive amount of bookkeeping, as well as some fault tolerance issues you can walk into trying to build a robust service. It's definitely better than handling raw threads, but Erlang/Elixir beat it hands down.