I'd say Golang is a systems language if you consider the system to be interconnected services, sort of like a C for the HTTP and Kubernetes age. It has better p

I'd say Golang is a systems language if you consider the system to be interconnected services, sort of like a C for the HTTP and Kubernetes age. It has better performance than typical scripting languages, but it's probably not meant to write truly low-level code. I'd argue that GC doesn't matter on a typical networked service scale.