by Chad DePue
“The Go language, getting a lot of attention because it was recently open sourced by Google, seems to be a sort of programmers’ Rorschach test in that everyone calls it a replacement for C++/Python/Erlang/Your Language Here… My sense is it wouldn’t be getting that much attention if it were released apart from Google. But thinking about Go for the past few days made me realize that the most important part about Go is actually its “Erlang-ness”. Everything else it provides is nice if you’re a C++ developer doing systems programming already, but not critical. But the goroutine/channel piece is the part that actually differentiates the language as something worth investigating that you can’t easily work around with the existing toolset.”

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