What I'm trying to say is, even in the event that Go was created after NodeJS, the "but Go could learn from Node's mistakes" argument implied here doesn't work.

What I'm trying to say is, even in the event that Go was created after NodeJS, the "but Go could learn from Node's mistakes" argument implied here doesn't work. There were enough event-based concurrency systems before the advent of Node, and I'm sure the creators of Go were aware of them.