I'd agree C could be used with a framework. But it is still not going to be as productive, specifically, think about all the memory management and overall reso

I'd agree C could be used with a framework. But it is still not going to be as productive, specifically, think about all the memory management and overall resource management you will need to write code for. Even inside of Go you have a GC to help you as well as a concurrency model that already steers you in the right direction without the need to write a lot of code managing it. Go while sharing a lot of C does a huge amount of lifting and gluing for you that in C you would be writing or managing. Back in that late 90's early 2000's we wrote ISAPI extensions in C/C++ quite often for performance critical problems, e.g. searching etc. IIRC, ebay was also doing that because performance was so critical. But the difference between writing single extensions versus a full website in C is pretty significant. Not saying it is impossible, but I just don't think the tooling and frameworks are there yet to make it practical or productive in comparison to say Go/Node/ASP.net/PHP/Python etc. Not saying any of those are better languages, just that they are more setup for the web model.