When I chose Go for Poly it pretty much came down to Go vs. Rust and the main criteria were.
1. Fast execution
2. Strong devops ecosystem
3. Easy to learn syntax
4. Ships binaries for as many systems as possible.
Julia wasn't really considered because last time I used Julia (which granted was a while ago) there wasn't any support for binary compilation targets and it didn't have a strong devops ecosystem. Also, it's more of a scripting language than something you'd write stable, deployable code in.
Rust beat out Go on speed and tied for shipping binaries but was, way, way harder to learn and Go was still leagues ahead when it came to packages and tooling.
If I remember correctly C is typically 3x faster than Go and 2x faster than Rust. That small decrease in execution time doesn't matter in a majority of use cases but Go is way faster and easier to learn and develop in so it ultimately won.
1. Fast execution 2. Strong devops ecosystem 3. Easy to learn syntax 4. Ships binaries for as many systems as possible.
Julia wasn't really considered because last time I used Julia (which granted was a while ago) there wasn't any support for binary compilation targets and it didn't have a strong devops ecosystem. Also, it's more of a scripting language than something you'd write stable, deployable code in.
Rust beat out Go on speed and tied for shipping binaries but was, way, way harder to learn and Go was still leagues ahead when it came to packages and tooling.
If I remember correctly C is typically 3x faster than Go and 2x faster than Rust. That small decrease in execution time doesn't matter in a majority of use cases but Go is way faster and easier to learn and develop in so it ultimately won.