Heh ... it is the other mainstream "hot" language. I was looking for a language to move to post-python. I love python but the 2.7->3 jump has been annoying. Mo

Heh ... it is the other mainstream "hot" language. I was looking for a language to move to post-python. I love python but the 2.7->3 jump has been annoying. More than that, I felt I needed static typing for the next big system I did ... too much pain debugging python. I looked at Scala since it had the JVM behind it. While the language seems decent, it seems too easy to write unreadable code. Multiple ways of doing the same thing ... yada yada. Friends at Google had been espousing Go for a long time and I didn't bother. Seemed like a proprietary language with little adoption. Two things changed for me. I got some exposure to erlang via elixir. This made me think about the whole channel concept. Second, I had to read code in Docker (which is awesome). I learned a bit of the language and was surprised how small the language was. Really reminded me of C, which I love. There seems to be more adoption of Go .. e.g. Cloud Foundry and others. I like Go enough that I will be spending more time learning and investing in it. Just by 2 cents.