&gt; Go would be decent for applications asymptotically approaching web browsers if the user interface options were better.<p>No, it wouldn&#x27;t. Browsers are too performance critical. You need an industrial-strength optimization pipeline in the compiler, and even having a GC is risky.<p>(There are numerous other smaller-but-still-critical reasons why Go&#x27;s design prevents it from working as the implementation language for a competitive browser, but these two are the biggest show-stoppers.)