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I'd choose Node or PHP over Go for a greenfield project. (Although I can't think of a case where I'd choose them over Python.) All of those languages at least give me an FFI escape hatch in case I need it that isn't absolutely horrendous, both from a dev experience standpoint and a performance standpoint.

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Yeah, preach. I wrote Go professionally for a couple of years, and I write Python now (I know, I know, but they pay me a ridiculous amount to do it). I would choose almost anything, including JS, over Go. It's a good language if you need to write highly concurrent high-level code with low-skill devs, but not for much else, and even then it requires an inordinate amount of menial boilerplate work to get simple stuff done. Having said that, I would still choose it – indeed anything - over Python.

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