Go exists in a weird space. It's not the top performer but is respectable (as long as you don't pressure the GC too much) however it's also not very expressive.

Go exists in a weird space. It's not the top performer but is respectable (as long as you don't pressure the GC too much) however it's also not very expressive. This leads to it not being favoured as a high level language because it lacks the primitives to write very concise code. On the other hand it has a big runtime and a GC so it's too high level for many true systems programming tasks. This lack of high level language features coupled with it's higher level runtime means that it finds itself occupying a space between systems languages like Rust and C++ but "lower" than Python/JS/Ruby/Kotlin/Swift/etc. Essentially it ends up competing with Java on the server and supplanting C/C++ for systemsy tools in fields it got to before Rust arrived on the scene.