Go 1.1 Language Brings Performance Improvements

[dee.]

But that's enough for now. I feel like Go's a very useful language, at least for building servers. But you'll have to try it and decide for yourself.

Ok, maybe I will.

[stqn]

It?s a very interesting language to use instead of C or C++ due to many improvements (speed of compilation, no need to write headers, garbage collection, relative simplicity of the language, more readable and maintainable code, ease of writing concurrent programs), but I haven?t yet built anything with it. Google say they have, of course, as well as several other businesses.

[Fenrin]

Has anybody actually built anything with this language yet?

Yes..., for example:
https://github.com/globocom/tsuru PaaS software (cloud for web applications)

and from Mozilla:
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/it...e-1854106.html

The developers behind Heka also thought about using Rust (a language developed by Mozilla), but then decided to go with Go, because Rust will have too much changes in the future.