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From the upvotes, apparently Go has a lot of support on HN, and/or there are a lot of Googlers here. I am particularly curious about Go and Ceylon, 2 recent lan

From the upvotes, apparently Go has a lot of support on HN, and/or there are a lot of Googlers here. I am particularly curious about Go and Ceylon, 2 recent languages with strong corporate backing. Is anyone using Go in a startup? Congratulations to Go open source for 3rd year. Go Go!

lbarrow 14y ago
I work for Braintree -- we've been playing around with Go internally in the last two months, but no production system uses it yet. The language itself is pretty cool, but most of our work is still web application development (broadly defined). Go isn't particularly suited for that, and even if it were, it doesn't have a mature framework for doing webdev yet.
- burntsushi 14y ago
  > The language itself is pretty cool, but most of our work is still web application development (broadly defined). Go isn't particularly suited for that, and even if it were, it doesn't have a mature framework for doing webdev yet. Really? Web development is one of Go's strengths IMO, and the standard library was clearly designed with web development in mind. i.e., the HTML template library, the net/http library, etc. There are also a few third party frameworks out there. They may or may not be mature depending upon your definition, but gorilla looks promising.
objclxt 14y ago
Soundcloud use Go, as others have mentioned so do CloudFlare, Heroku use it for a few things...there's a list of production users here: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go Personally, I've used Go for some prototyping work internally. I thought it was a great language to write in. Sadly I haven't had a chance to do something in production with it myself yet! I've been keeping a close eye on Revel as well (http://robfig.github.com/revel/ http://robfig.github.com/revel/), which is a Play-like web framework under active development.
- jfaucett 14y ago
  Great link with revel, it looks promising. I've used Go in production but only for internal things like command line utils for wiring things together. Its a great language especially if your coming from c.
- salimmadjd 14y ago
  up vote for sharing Revel. I added myself to their notification list. Have you compared it against other web framework in Go (I know revel is very young). I also love Go but still searching/waiting for the one web framework that will emerge. I almost wonder if google should put their weight behind one just to reduce chances of further fragmentization.

lbarrow 14y ago

I work for Braintree -- we've been playing around with Go internally in the last two months, but no production system uses it yet. The language itself is pretty cool, but most of our work is still web application development (broadly defined). Go isn't particularly suited for that, and even if it were, it doesn't have a mature framework for doing webdev yet.

burntsushi 14y ago
> The language itself is pretty cool, but most of our work is still web application development (broadly defined). Go isn't particularly suited for that, and even if it were, it doesn't have a mature framework for doing webdev yet. Really? Web development is one of Go's strengths IMO, and the standard library was clearly designed with web development in mind. i.e., the HTML template library, the net/http library, etc. There are also a few third party frameworks out there. They may or may not be mature depending upon your definition, but gorilla looks promising.

objclxt 14y ago

Soundcloud use Go, as others have mentioned so do CloudFlare, Heroku use it for a few things...there's a list of production users here: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go Personally, I've used Go for some prototyping work internally. I thought it was a great language to write in. Sadly I haven't had a chance to do something in production with it myself yet! I've been keeping a close eye on Revel as well (http://robfig.github.com/revel/ http://robfig.github.com/revel/), which is a Play-like web framework under active development.

jfaucett 14y ago
Great link with revel, it looks promising. I've used Go in production but only for internal things like command line utils for wiring things together. Its a great language especially if your coming from c.
salimmadjd 14y ago
up vote for sharing Revel. I added myself to their notification list. Have you compared it against other web framework in Go (I know revel is very young). I also love Go but still searching/waiting for the one web framework that will emerge. I almost wonder if google should put their weight behind one just to reduce chances of further fragmentization.