Go wasn't an option then. Obviously the languages that WERE options, weren't preferred. The article mentions the authors lack of Java love specifically. There a

Go wasn't an option then. Obviously the languages that WERE options, weren't preferred. The article mentions the authors lack of Java love specifically. There are plenty of other situations where Ruby (or something else) was eventually a bottleneck, and people moved to Java, or wrote their own PHP compiler, or moved to .NET version of ColdFusion... Now that Go's an option, some of the folks looking for speed are going to choose it.