hungrycoder

Would love to hear more in the form of a blog post; perhaps when the world server has shipped.

+1 on memory usage. OOM is a killer for long running apps (pun intended)

I am excited by golang and plan to start hacking with it. Here's why:

1. language designed with good intentions (http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#What_is_the_purpose_of_the...)

2. designed and built by a group of veteran system researchers and engineers (ie. not javascript)

3. implementation open sourced from the start: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse

4. not overdesigned (http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Design)

5. a real and practical abstraction for multicore computing (http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf)

Its success, like most languages, will depend on library support. Here's hoping it catches on.