Should I learn node or Go?

In Node JS, error handling can be inconsistent at times. But, it offers better and clear error handling than Golang with common throw-catch handling technique . And the best part is that a lot of web developers are already familiar with this technique.

Our decision was to replace GoLang with NodeJS . This addressed all our issues which really centered on speed and cost. NodeJS has a larger market of engineers available than GoLang. Experienced NodeJS engineers are much cheaper than GoLang engineers.

Go is a great language, but it is based on a different paradigm than javaScript (strongly typed, compiled, pointers). Node will be much easier for you to pick up and has a larger set of well used libraries that can help you do things that you’ll likely have to build on your own using Go.