> somebody says "go" my mind alwasys jumps to "feels like a interpreted language". Because it does! I'm a pretty hardcore Pythonista who has never really gotte

> somebody says "go" my mind alwasys jumps to "feels like a interpreted language". Because it does! I'm a pretty hardcore Pythonista who has never really gotten very far with compiled languages. I wrote a simple shell in C, once, but beyond that they never felt right. Somehow, Go manages to get things sufficiently "right" for me. But more importantly, I think Go has a very strong chance of being the Clojure moment for Algol-derived languages. It's trying to address many of the same problems, and taking a similarly refreshing and pragmatic approach. Not to mention that the system-level language ecosystem is quite overdue for some reinvigoration. The glowing tone of so many Go posts may be, in part, due to a fundamental yearning for something that gets so much right -- something like Go -- to finally take off.