On: Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end...

[_Codemonkeyism]

"Developers learn a new language that is faster to develop, safer and faster to run than existing solutions"

Most often only in the eye of the developers with no proper evaluation.

"Furthermore, shouldn't the CEOs and the CTOs know better and to a better job?"

Yes.

[nspattak → _Codemonkeyism]

Well, the "in the eye of ... with no proper evaluation" argument can be had for a lot of other aspects of software development and product management, doesn't it?