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I remember first seeing Go and taking a look at some of the interesting libraries it shipped with and thinking “this is a systems language” but it appears it mostly got relegated to web backend work.

Web backend work at scale is all about building and maintaining distributed systems. Just consider the company where Go was designed ... And indeed, it's still a language of choice for teaching systems design[1].

[1] MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQP8WApzIQQ&list=PLrw6a1wE39...

Discord has an interesting engineering blog post on moving from Go to Rust due to performance issues causes by the Go GC.

https://link.medium.com/ZS6jwQCkJbb

XTX Markets uses Go, I think.

For back office only