>It's not a more popular or established language, yet. Github would disagree as one data point. I don't have my own numbers to back this up but I firmly belie

>It's not a more popular or established language, yet. Github would disagree as one data point. I don't have my own numbers to back this up but I firmly believe based on my communication that there are more people in the world that have written Go right now than Erlang. >Having a really good language as part of your stack works as a filter-- I think this is good for Go and Erlang... So I don't think it helps distinguish. Not to mention anyone that smart knows C/C++/C#/Java can very quickly become a gopher if needed; quicker I would contend than you will ramp them up on Erlang. >Most interesting to me is your perception of the situation I've been writing Go full-time since before Go 1.0 RC-- I think you don't have an accurate perception of where Go is at.