I like Erlang a lot, but learning Go is much easier, especially for people with a background in imperative languages. When you code in Go everything seems very

I like Erlang a lot, but learning Go is much easier, especially for people with a background in imperative languages. When you code in Go everything seems very familiar, even for someone who tries it for the first time; in Erlang not so much. Now, don't get me wrong, I think it is amazing to know different paradigms, but some people just can't afford that luxury (think lack of time). There's probably no match for Erlang's error handling mechanisms out there, I actually dislike Go's panic mechanism, but if you have a small piece in your system which needs to be wickedly fast and highly concurrent I see Go as a perfectly good choice.