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Nowadays, doing just about anything in Go makes it HN worthy.

• quaunaut 13y ago
  It's a language that excites a lot of people. You get performance that isn't far off the mark of C++ or Java, while also not being that much more difficult than Python or Ruby, and as an added bonus, concurrency is a snap.
  • patrickg 13y ago
    ... plus you get a (output) binary with very few dependencies, easy cross compiling, nice tool chain (go fmt is great) and much more that are good arguments (for me) to use go.
    • pjmlp 13y ago
      ... which is possible in lots of languages.
  • locofacetwice 13y ago
    I don't see how Go is easier than C++. It's nothing like Ruby or Python IMO.