Golang pros: In Node.js it is difficult to utilize full CPU cores. You will have to use cluster module (which basically is different processes communicating with each other via IPC using shared port) or use worker_threads but then they serialize messages and cannot share objects like true threads so threading in Node is awkward this way. So if you have business logic in your code which is synchronous and have too many requests then the latency of Node servers will be higher than go equivalent due to lack of concurrency and even with concurrency an equivalent go code is faster than Node as its compiled to binary. Go being statically typed means you dont have to add type validations in run time as all your go interfaces will validate data from IO calls automatically whereas in Node you will need validation libraries to validate incoming requests data (like Yup, express-validator, class validators, AJV etc) and basically everywhere you would want a strong type check in Node. In Go you get all this builtin. Go has much stronger primitives especially numbers compared to Javascript. MEMORY LEAK. Nearly all projects I worked in last 8 years in Node in different companies had memory leaks especially when websocket was involved. And i have spent countless hours profiling those Node servers by taking heap snapshots and inspecting memory usage. Sometimes it was due to library itself (ex. Socket.io inflate/deflate incoming JSON) and other times were due to developers code because of how closure in JS works and how V8 garbage collector works with mark sweep etc. I am saying in NodeJS its very easy to write a code which can leak memory and a lot of third party libraries (even established ones like socket.io) can cause leak especially when sockets are involved and those are VERY difficult to debug. Node servers consume more memory compared to equivalent Go code. Extensive standard library compared to Node.js Node pros: Has TON of 3rd party libraries to get work done compared to Go. No meta framework in Go like laravel in php or Nest.js (or Adonis.js) in Node.js world. And somehow Go community is to hostile to those ideas. It means you will end up using standard library to solve same problems which Nest.js/laravel have already solved and your solution might not be robust. It becomes prevalent if you, in your Go code, add authentication, authorization, graphql, websocket middlewares etc. Go gets messy without any meta framework or lack of good 3rd party libraries compared Node.js as the same things are easy to solve/already solved in NodeJs Extending previous point, it also means it is harder to bootstrap and build web app compared to Go as its so faster to build products with Node. Typescript as a language is MUCH fun to work and syntax of TS/JS is significantly better than Golang. Google has a history of solving problems in awkward way and always reinventing wheel just to look cool. Ex. Weird for loops, EXTREMELY weird OOP, export functions with capital letter (bad code styling by starting functions with capital letters instead of marking them with export and easier to search what is exported), receiver function (seriously to solve a problem they created another), has pointers which most other high level languages dont have and devs like not having to deal with pointers, painful string interpolation, painful to add JSON functionality, lack of generics, function can return more than 1 value, PAINFUL error handling and lack of DRY code because of it etc. Overall Go is just NOT the fun language syntactically which is a shame. 5. Faster to bootstrap ideas and overall MUCH more fun to work with by a long shot compared to Golang and overall in general. 6. Has npm modules fir just about anything though quality can be debatable. So, verdict? Overall its a tuff call. The main attraction of golang is single binary executable, easy concurrency, high speed and big standard library but its a shame that the lack of meta frameworks/small ecosystem and especially weird/poor syntax really ruin it for me significantly. Whereas Node and TS/JS is so much fun to work with with a HUGE npm ecosystem using which developers can build products significantly faster but lack of good concurrency support means hitting limits on Node server with demanding features is easy and very hard to solve given JS is not built for concurrency and servers benefit from it. The only way out would be horizontally/vertical scaling and shelling out more $ compared to Golang. More on reddit.com

Node.js has more job offerings, so that'd be better, no? More on reddit.com

I'm not in the us market but your points seems valid. You also need to have in mind that Javascript is the most used language in web dev so it obiously bleeds over to the backend. I myself was using PHP, Java or even C# but i'm seriously considering switching to Nest.js to do everything for my company's backend. The performance of Node is enough for probably 99% of the apps we builds. For the 1% left Go is a perfect match! You can choose Node and the plethore of frameworks that exists and do the majority of your work pretty quick and switch to Go for more heavy duty parts. In a perfect world you could do everything entirely in Go, it's just not the most known language right now and the environnement is pretty bare bones because the standard library is so complete, most of the Gophers tell you to not use any framework. More on reddit.com

Go is great for performance based apps. 99% of apps most people write don't need that level of performance. If this is for a work project, go with something you know well, and know the pitfalls of. Nodejs suits a lot of needs. If this is for a personal project build something in Go to see if you like it. Learning something new is always a good call. More on reddit.com