Well, I was responding to the "only game in town" characterization with respect to the points you gave, all of which are addressed in Go. You could add as requ

Well, I was responding to the "only game in town" characterization with respect to the points you gave, all of which are addressed in Go. You could add as requirements a mature and highly optimized GC and a large pool of talent, then it might be correct. (If you are talking Scala, Clojure, and some other JVM-based languages, I think Go talent pools will quickly catch up if it's not already there.) I would think HN has a very broad readership across many occupations. Dismissing Go as an HN bauble seems very odd. The point is that I enjoy Go, and it handles all the things you mention and a few more within its sweet spot. And it works well even now, immature that it is. It's a reasonable alternative to the JVM for lots of problems. Go is also most pertinent from the Python perspective because it's probably gaining recruits from that community instead of the C/C++ community.