Ah yes the old "engineers are more expensive than machines" adage. Thing is, that's true for some small number of machines. But when you build scalable systems

Ah yes the old "engineers are more expensive than machines" adage. Thing is, that's true for some small number of machines. But when you build scalable systems and actually scale them you get to a point where the balance tips. And it just so happens that building those systems is exactly what the Golang team has in mind.