Reason; no idea - but the appeal for me is it's very ruby-like, and super fast (except, compiling). Some programs I've moved from ruby use >10x less memory, and

Reason; no idea - but the appeal for me is it's very ruby-like, and super fast (except, compiling). Some programs I've moved from ruby use >10x less memory, and are generally faster. It's mostly as a nice to write as ruby, except the compile time. Concurrency is very go-like, and there are a reasonable amount (not ruby-like though) level of libraries for use.