The timing is funny, I just started playing with Go a few days ago (the 1.5 release as well as the impressive amount of software that's actually been shipped wi

The timing is funny, I just started playing with Go a few days ago (the 1.5 release as well as the impressive amount of software that's actually been shipped with Go convinced me to give it a go - pun intended, somewhat). I must say, its a great little language. Love the tooling, the dependency management, it was even incredibly simple to set up the dev environment (basically just DLed the binaries, added to my path, installed the Go-plus package for Atom, and everything just worked). It is a little shocking to work with a relatively bare-bones language since I work mostly with R (which has a package for everything it seems), but its been a lot of fun. I'll probably do something bigger with it in the next little while.