It's silly to compare Go to Erlang, which is decades older and more mature. Erlang has built-in clusters, a robust actor framework and a powerful pre-emptive VM

It's silly to compare Go to Erlang, which is decades older and more mature. Erlang has built-in clusters, a robust actor framework and a powerful pre-emptive VM. It's optimized for High Availability/Low Latency applications, not "raw" speed or throughput.