I don't argue with the portability and longevity of Perl but it too has its problems.
Go is in many ways leap years ahead of most AOT languages I've used in anger. Yes, sometimes you miss XYZ, but seldom is that an issue outside of personal preferences.
What you do get though is amazing tooling and little-to-no downtime. Builds basically don't take any time, tests run past, pipelines are quick.
go test ./... finishes faster than you can print Determining projects to restore... to the screen. It's a very liberating experience that is hard to go back from.
I have my very real pet peeves with Golang -- lack of sum types and thus no exhaustive pattern matching is the top one -- but I can't argue with results. Every time I wanted to whip up something quickly, Golang has gotten the job done and then some.
Unfortunately it does nothing in terms of exhaustiveness, but it effectively gives you sum types which IME are so, so much easier to work with than state pattern or other inject-an-object-abstractions. Not having to design an API (that later leaks) is rewarding enough.
It's strangely efficient as well. I've experimented with implementing sum types via tagged C-style unions and at every (ad hoc, micro) benchmark I've tried them against, type switching on an interface comes out on top.
Maybe Python, but it doesn't compile to a static bin.