Comment by novok

Any large codebase has a large ramp up time by virtue of being large. And the large codebase can have devex automation to get past the initial ceremony setup of larger languages like Java. It feels like the wrong thing to optimize for. As a better alternative to small services that would've been made in python or node, yes for sure, then the quick setup and simplicity of go makes sense. Which is why the biggest audience of people who use go and used another language previously is python engineers and people who want to make small network services.

At the larger codebase go company I worked at, the general conclusion was: Go is a worse Java. The company should've just used Java in the end.