Why I'm Moving from Go to C After Building a Load Balancer

This isn't an anti-Go post. Go is a great language. This is about what I want to understand. I just finished building an L7 HTTP load balancer in Go. It accepts connections. It parses HTTP headers. It forwards requests to backend servers using round-robin. It handles concurrent connections with goroutines. It has health checks. It works. And somewhere in the middle of it working, I realized I didn't fully understand what it was doing. Not the logic — I understood the logic. I'm talking about wha