Well, if you want to do functional programming, as the OP indicated, then Go is not the way to go. Scala seems like a fine choice then, or e.g. Haskell if you w

Well, if you want to do functional programming, as the OP indicated, then Go is not the way to go. Scala seems like a fine choice then, or e.g. Haskell if you want to go all the way.