Yeah, Go doesn’t have top safety, but it lets you move a lot faster than safer languages. You can spend the extra time finding and fixing most of these bugs and

Yeah, Go doesn’t have top safety, but it lets you move a lot faster than safer languages. You can spend the extra time finding and fixing most of these bugs and still have time to spare compared to safer languages. Parallelism does need some design to avoid making a mess (minimize shared mutable state and lock what you can’t minimize and you’re fine). Note also that Rust and other safer languages don’t help much because most shared mutable state is remote and accessed by multiple application processes (e.g., an object in an S3 bucket, a file in an NFS volume, etc). With Rust or with Go, you need to test for these kinds of bugs, but with Go you’ll be able to start your testing sooner (with Rust you’d still be writing the app code).