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Go is a good fit for agents


Since you’re here, you might be interested in checking out Hatchet — the platform for running background tasks, data pipelines and AI agents at scale. Alexander Belanger Published on June 3, 2025 Like seemingly everyone else on the planet, we’ve been spending the last few months fussing over agents.

This system of many concurrent, long-running processes is quite different from a traditional web architecture of ~10 years ago, where requests to a server were much faster, and thousands of daily users could be served efficiently using . Couple this with a lower baseline memory footprint and compilation into a single binary, and it becomes incredibly easy to run thousands of concurrent agent executions at the same time on lightweight infrastructure. Third-party support still lags behind Python and Typescript Using Go for anything that involves real machine learning is nearly impossible If you’re looking for the best performance possible, there are better languages like Rust and C++ You’re a maverick and don’t like to handle errors ()

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