Part of it is that I prefer the flow of goroutines and channels, part of it is that concurrency in C is difficult while concurrency in Go is so easy even a moron like me can do it. Take your pick on what's more important

Same goes for web; Go's http library is dead simple, libcurl has a ton of boilerplate that I always have to lookup how to do. Admittedly, I haven't written any C + libcurl in years so I'm not sure if things have changed. I also have never learned how to use something like BCHS.

Now all that being said, I needed a simple customized TCP server to handle data being sent to a server and C + POSIX sockets was quick and easy. Thanks Beej!