Go is a language for people who write servers. It is really really good for those uses. Look at Docker, etcd, Kubernetes, Juju, Cloudflare, Soundcloud ...
And probably a ton that are internal to a company and not really exposed as a user-facing "Go Application™" (like the stuff behind google's downloads service, some of youtube's metadata processes, etc etc).
I think the fact that early on in Go's life someone called it a "systems language" really confused a lot of people. It's not a systems language. It's just a language. The channels, goroutines, and standard library happen to be really useful when writing networked servers.
Go is a language for people who write servers. It is really really good for those uses. Look at Docker, etcd, Kubernetes, Juju, Cloudflare, Soundcloud ...
And probably a ton that are internal to a company and not really exposed as a user-facing "Go Application™" (like the stuff behind google's downloads service, some of youtube's metadata processes, etc etc).
I think the fact that early on in Go's life someone called it a "systems language" really confused a lot of people. It's not a systems language. It's just a language. The channels, goroutines, and standard library happen to be really useful when writing networked servers.