It's not as good as Erlang, not by a long shot, but it's still a bit of reassurance, and provides a useful default "restart" behavior out the box. (Naively-written restarts have some bad and easy-to-trigger pathological conditions. Well-written restarts still some bad cases too; crashing software can always crash in more pathological ways than you expected, but it's at least better.)
I'm also developing a library that gives you a "mailbox" like Erlang. I'm porting over a project in Erlang, and while I use native Go idioms where possible, Erlang code ends up with the Erlang semantics deeply embedded in it. (My thought is that a new project in Go should never use this library, but porting Erlang code may be eased by it.) That is still very much in progress; I'll only be starting cross-node clustering support here in the next couple of weeks, and without that there's not a lot of value to it. I'm still feeling my way through the right set of functionality and semantics for that, it's not ready for the public yet.