I can't speak to the technical merits of either language, but something can be said about choosing a language with a lot of hype as opposed to one that's hated

I can't speak to the technical merits of either language, but something can be said about choosing a language with a lot of hype as opposed to one that's hated in the community. From a recruitment perspective, choosing Go may be more favorable in a lot of developers eyes. The problem is that the 'HN community' has IMO a pretty small overlap with the overall software development community. Hype in the former does not equate to hype in the latter.