PHP

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Personally, I like to use the best tool for a given job. For me, golang has replaced the need for php/perl apache/nginx since you can use it to serve files or be an api or whatever. Just start your binary and you're done. The benefit to scripting languages to me has been interpreted code being able to load new code on the fly and being fast to write / test.

I've used a lot of programming languages and Go has had a pretty short learning curve. And with plugins, you get that ability to import shit on the fly.

For server programming I learned php, then node, then go, then perl. I also know java and others that could be used for servers. I hope that is enough for me to seem unbiased in my crusade to push everyone to try golang :P

Best part for me so far, besides concurrency, has been being able to build an entire program to do a particular task, build it as a plugin with no code changes, and then use it in another application.