There are certainly alternatives to Lucene. What about idzebra? It's written in C, it predates Lucene and it was used as the indexing system for Harvest (the

There are certainly alternatives to Lucene. What about idzebra? It's written in C, it predates Lucene and it was used as the indexing system for Harvest (the origin of Squid). What is more likely than "low memory footprint" to give an indexing system written in Go an advantage over alternatives is the marketing of Go. It seems the language is being promoted nearly every day on HN's front page. If this is any indication of usage trends among developers, the Go Authors must be pleased.