Usually, if you're in microservices land, it's often possible to spin off a separate service and move the part that has different requirements over. Obviously t

Usually, if you're in microservices land, it's often possible to spin off a separate service and move the part that has different requirements over. Obviously that isn't always trivial, but service boundaries at least give you that option. I had a team convinced that a particular subsystem was a mess and that they needed a stronger type system to build it properly because Go would just lead to hacks. They built a better one in Rust, deployed it, and moved traffic over. Ditto, to some extent, if you're building desktop applications. Many large desktop applications already have multiple components or processes under the hood, and if you're at millions of lines, introducing that complexity may be worth it. However, not all programs fit the above category. Sometimes you really do need a single lightweight binary and it needs to do a lot of stuff. But I think it's relatively uncommon to need one single binary that is simultaneously very large, architecturally diverse, and unable to delegate substantial complexity to other processes or services. I see this most in the Kubernetes world, where something that starts as a simple binary gradually increases in scope and complexity. I've seen vendors struggle to keep up and start playing whack-a-mole with that complexity, but generally Go still scales surprisingly well here. Outside of K8s, there are also domains where you may strongly prefer a single-process or single-binary application, such as edge computing or developer tools. Luckily, products where Go excels in these spaces also tend to have a natural upper bound on their domain complexity, because the operating model is generally about doing one or a few things well. If Go's type system actually starts fighting you rather than merely being an inconvenience, then yeah, I would seriously look into moving off Go. If you're working in a space that doesn't fit any of the above, I'd genuinely be interested in hearing about what you're building.