Go is a perfectly fine incremental refinement on the Perl model. What the Go cheerleaders lack is actual experience of most of the alternatives over significan

Go is a perfectly fine incremental refinement on the Perl model. What the Go cheerleaders lack is actual experience of most of the alternatives over significant time. I have code in production based on Go, and C++, and Haskell, and PHP, and Erlang, and Python, and JavaScript, and probably others. Go doesn't really stand out, at all. If I had to pick one, I'd pick C++. If I had to add another, it would be Haskell, unless I needed front end which forces JavaScript. Go is probably ahead of PHP, though, so that's something.