I thought (hoped!) this would be a full text database of Oleg's papers (<a href="http://okmij.org/ftp/" rel="nofollow">http://okmij.org/ftp/</a>), though of course the irony of constructing such a beast in Go would be overwhelming. As it was I found the website only a marginally less enjoyable read than "Finally Tagless".<p>I assume this is getting up-votes by appealing to HN's current infatuation with Go, but would be genuinely be interested to know other salient points of the project beyond its laugh value.
If you take five minutes and read through their website you can tell this is a rather complex troll and also funny how people on HN mindlessly upvote anything related to Go.
Interesting to see how a language that is barely out of the egg is already supplanting one that has been around for decades because of the 'bus-factor'.<p>If you're wondering why FP hasn't caught on in the mainstream I think this is one of the hints: if it's hard to find programmers then the language/ecosystem may have unique and desirable traits but people will still switch just to gain easy access to developers. And that switch wasn't exactly free in this case (they already did a bunch of stuff in Erlang).<p>That said, olegdb does not seem to be the most seriously run software project, <a href="https://olegdb.org/faq.html" rel="nofollow">https://olegdb.org/faq.html</a> is not going to inspire confidence in anybody in a position to decide whether to use it or a competitor.