About 6 or 7 years ago I was searching for a language that had great concurrency built in and a sane enough model of concurrency that would allow me to get things done.

Eventually I found and fell in love with gevent because I could write fairly straightforward code in a synchronous fashion and reason about the code a lot easier than other models. But then I found some warts with gevent: what about good community support? What about exploiting parallelism? Monkey patching 3rd party libs is a bit ugly and not 100% without faults.

So imagine how I felt when I found that Go offers this model of concurrency CSP with support for parallelism due to the M to N threading model. Also a not quite but close enough Python looking syntax and at that point I never looked back.

Sure there other models of concurrency and other languages that are also proving to be useful. But Go has been a good bet...at least for now.

And I know this is controversial...but Go’s time is running out...other languages are getting there with more advanced support for asynchronous programming...so I imagine in due time I’ll be onto the next thing.