Ha ha, my edit and your reply (which you later deleted) crossed in time, due to my messing up my original post a bit w/copy+paste :) Sorry for the confusion. An

Ha ha, my edit and your reply (which you later deleted) crossed in time, due to my messing up my original post a bit w/copy+paste :) Sorry for the confusion. Anyway, point made clear. I found Rob's statement surprising too. But also, I heard from Josh Fraser, founder of Torbit (acquired in a relatively short while after being founded), that they decided to use Go because it has a good balance between the performance of C and the productivity of dynamic languages like Python and Ruby.