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> With Go that's much more work to get up and running.

Can you expand on that? Go is very fast to get up and running, you DL go runtime, git clone a repo, go build . and have your single executable ready to go.

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He's referring to Go being more work to setup realtime web things, as opposed to Phoenix.

This bit of Phoenix: https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-webs... Takes substantially more work in Go.

Thanks for the answer, for Go it doesn't take much most likely easier than in Erlang: http://goroutines.com/10m

I never had to work on that many connections per instance, but knowing how much faster Go is vs Erlang I woudn't see this as an issue?

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