I don't see much future in Go either -- unless Google takes some steps to promote a certain niche for it like Android integration (which they most likely won't)

I don't see much future in Go either -- unless Google takes some steps to promote a certain niche for it like Android integration (which they most likely won't). Since someone mentioned Python here.. my go-to language has always been Python lately, but large Python projects tend to often converge into a wtf mess; and there's also all kinds of performance issues... I've recently (to my shame) discovered D language which is kinda like C/C++ on steroids without all the ugliness and verbosity, with a mix of Scala/Python. Type inference, concurrency, first class functions/arrays/maps, runtime reflections, mixing, templating, compile-time evaluation, it's got it all. Kinda like Go, it also falls inbetween C++ and Python, but much closer to C++.