I guess that's a possibility; however, Go isn't the most lightweight and portable language out there. Rust and Erlang both seem like better options if those criteria are important.

I just find Go a more pleasant experience. The source code is easily readable and understandable. I don't run into weird wrong version or dependency problems ever. Go get, go build and i'm done. Or if i download the binary, just dump it in a bin folder and it works without even having Go on the system. I haven't written anything in Rust or Erlang yet, but I have run into trouble when building Rust packages from source. Maybe it was the package maintainer's bad every time, the system setup or I'm just dim, but I just need to get stuff done and not go down the rabbit hole. I also personally don't like the hassle with Python version environments.

Of course it won't beat Rust or C but it's good enough.