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Not really. You'll notice a pattern in most tech bigcos where they move from dynamic lang X to a statically typed language that can multithread properly. A few examples: Ruby on rails to java (twitter). Java & c++ (google). Java (linked in). Python/Node -> Java/Go (uber). Or they start doing silly things like make a new VM (facebook).
I heard through the grapevine that Go was only chosen at Uber to help with hiring.
I would imagine that node would draw more enthusiasm than Go