If you're looking for a contemporary alternative to Ruby, you might also like to investigate Clojure (http://clojure.org/ http://clojure.org/) - it is far more

If you're looking for a contemporary alternative to Ruby, you might also like to investigate Clojure (http://clojure.org/ http://clojure.org/) - it is far more mature than Golang, has excellent libraries for web development and arguably has made better language design decisions (no shared mutable state). It also has excellent support for clientside web development, which is becoming increasingly important.