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@cliffrowley Care to explain what you mean by I wouldn't use Go for the majority of a web project either? I would like to hear out the reason, because I recently started exploring Go and it is a lot of fun!

@rajkumarpb sure thing, I wouldn't use it purely through personal preference - I know Ruby and Rails inside out and it's quicker and easier for me to create something that way than any other. Go is a nice language, don't get me wrong, but Rails is battle tested and has been around long enough to cover the majority of use cases with well known patterns, to the point where I rarely (if ever) find myself in a position of trying to answer the question "How do I do this in Rails?".

Also, note that I said for the majority of a web project - what I mean by this is that often the types of projects I work on are made of many (often separate) components, and depending on what a component is or does I'll use whatever platform is appropriate for it. For example, I'd (personally) use Rails for the "web" side, but if I needed some realtime functionality (web sockets, whatever) I would use something else for that part of the system as Rails just isn't suited for that sort of task. Essentially I'm not bound by any particular language or platform, and I have no qualms when it comes to mixing it up with different technologies to create a single solution.

Ok, got it. I'm also a person, who has no issues mixing things up. And I guess that is why I have a little knowledge in areas where my colleagues lack! Thanks for the answer. So Go is for back-end stuff like huge processing with concurrency control? I felt Go is somewhat like Python. Is it?

Well, Go is general purpose really but people seem to be using it for backend stuff and systems programming. Similar to Python in which respect?