Cheney sounds on the money to me. Even with this ending- "Go competes for mindshare in the post 2006 Internet 2.0 generation of companies who have outgrown lang

Cheney sounds on the money to me. Even with this ending- "Go competes for mindshare in the post 2006 Internet 2.0 generation of companies who have outgrown languages like Ruby, Python, and Node.js (v8) and have lost patience with the high deployment costs of JVM based languages." I agree. If you're a large company that has a lot of product which is backend webservices and you have huge amounts of Ruby, Python (dunno who has large amounts of Node, but that has to be sad)- then Go needs to be looked at pretty hard. While some of Go's deployment advantages are nullified a bit thanks to things like Docker and UbuntuCore, it's probably going to win on maintainability with large codebases over time with new programmers coming in the door over time. I wouldn't put up much argument against that. If running a business and the choice was a 500KLOC codebase in Python, Go or Java.. I'd prefer that is in Go. And no one starts out with 500KLOC, so the decision for a new business would need to be taken seriously from the start. It's cliche but if your problems match Google's, then Go is a great solution. I think Go will be and already is wildly successful in this domain. The killer feature that ensures this is the simplicity. I think anyone coming from any language could pickup one of the "simple is better" languages like Go. That's going to ensure the prophecy continues IMO. Doesn't mean I'm onboard as 1 guy. I wouldn't have a problem with doing it for a job though. It'd be on my short list of acceptable technologies I'd work with. Doxsey in his response though with his Go for everything stance, is a bit overzealous for me. I'd agree if it seemed right, but it doesn't seem right. I don't see it. Fortunately for Go, he doesn't have to be right. I think what I described as being Go's sweet spot in the industry will be more than enough. That religiosity reads as someone who's overly excited and maybe trying to keep Go in the news.