+1 on the goroutines and channels. Go is best used for creating scalable, highly concurrent, performant network servers. That's its sweet spot & the reason wh

+1 on the goroutines and channels. Go is best used for creating scalable, highly concurrent, performant network servers. That's its sweet spot & the reason why Google can justify the R&D investment in it. It's a better language for building key pieces of their infrastructure. The Heroku guys have seen this & used Go to build their own clone of Google's Chubby service called Doozer.