Real Go Projects: SmartTwitter and web.go

I've been thoroughly impressed watching web.go come together. It's now the top Go project on Github in every category they track: <a href="http://github.com/languages/Go" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/languages/Go</a><p>Personally I'm of the opinion that language expressiveness matters more than real world performance, but only to a limit. Go is definitely carving out a nice niche for performant systems-related apps.<p>And the fact that Smart Twitter serves 90k concurrent users from a VPS without breaking a sweat is freaking amazing. I suspect this is the reason the service can remain free.<p>(edit: err, for the "watched" categories)

What do people find interesting about Go? It's barely faster than the best dynamic languages - <a href="http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all&#38;lang=go&#38;lang2=racket" rel="nofollow">http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...</a>, and it offers few conceptual innovations (in comparison to say Racket, Scala, Haskell, hell, even JavaScript).<p>So it seems too slow for systems programming and too "blind-folders on" about where CS is going. I'm honestly curious, what are people actually excited about?<p>The only scenario I could see people using it is in the situation where speed is not of the essence but memory consumption is. Perhaps I'm naive and this is a bigger category of software than I'm aware of.

Nice, this made it to TechCrunch via HN: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1816945" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1816945</a>

Well done marketer. Glad to see this getting some more publicity.

Gotta thank Hoisie for writing this. Nice shout out to HN. :-)

awesome!