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> But as this article says "I have no doubt that many Go users are very happy with the new runtime.", and that seems like a worthwhile metric.

A metric for what? For it making many Go users very happy, or for making rather big claims like "future of GC"?

Making your users happy seems like a reasonable goal. Neither the article nor the Go announcement suggest this is the "future of GC".

First line of the Go announcement: "Go is building a garbage collector (GC) not only for 2015 but for 2025 and beyond"

to me, that suggests they think they have the future of GC

There is a difference between "a future-proof GC" and "the future of GC".

I thought it was implied that they were talking about a GC for Go specifically.