> The reason I will almost never use Go for web apps is because interaction with databases is limited > but it's a huge drop in efficiency to spin my own SQL.

Sorry, I have to disagree. I come from PHP, where when you sneeze an ORM appears. I actually am a DBA also. I am very familiar with SQL and I love writing out raw SQL.

I don't see this as a limiting feature. It doesn't affect me at all.

There are ORMs for Go as well. But I don't know how good they are. YMMV!

Last point. I have shipped into production a web app using GIN framework. I ported from PHP to Go. I didn't feel I was losing anything.

Go is amazing. It hasn't let me down yet. I doubt it will.