Anything with a GC is an immediate killer for small embedded projects. Anything STM32 sized or less is going to struggle with GC due to lack of memory. But in

Anything with a GC is an immediate killer for small embedded projects. Anything STM32 sized or less is going to struggle with GC due to lack of memory. But in the intervening years the average embedded device has got larger and more powerful so now I'm doing embedded programming on devices with Linux in languages like python and Go. So maybe just wait and your Go learning will be useful again?