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> Most people wish they needed the performance or throughput of a language/environment like Go.

Most people do need the performance and throughput offered by modern languages like Go, though. Time to market is the most important consideration for most. Maybe at Facebook scale you can spend eons crafting perfection in a slow-to-develop language/ecosystem like PHP or NodeJS, but most people have to get something out the door ASAP.



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