IMHO, Google could be riding a much bigger wave right now...
An admittedly hastily prepared google trends graph: http://www.google.com/trends?q=node.js%2C+python+django%2C+r...
I am a node fan, I subscribe to the node-dev list and have worked on a few applications my self. However I am in no way delusional about the current blog popularity vs actual projects deploying with it.
Also you state that you are able to gain the same concurrency and speed with node that you are with Go. May I ask how you achieve this? Go usually comparable to C code in terms of performance [1]. Go also has amazing concurrency tools for efficient communication between two concurrent goroutines, for example the channel interface[2]. To my knowledge their is no way to run concurrent node processes. You can launch multiple instances of the same program but their is no way to let them communicate without sending data over a socket. You can of course use a reverse proxy to present a single entry point in which multiple node backends can take requests. However you can not claim this as concurrency in the same sense that is available with go.
Is there something comparable to npm or pip for go? I've seen a few go micro web frameworks but I'd really like to see a list of things like database adapters and the like which have been produced so far. The thing I find amazing about node is just how many great modules have been put out in it's short lifespan (https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules). I suppose Go is a brand new language though.
Thanks!
Like pip or npm, their is goinstall http://golang.org/cmd/goinstall/
Why not pass Json, and write your client code. It's not like Node is so expressive that it's a big win on server side code (especially with the flood of great altjvm & altclr languages these days).
(Native Client is also a possibility.)
If you're unable or unwilling to become fluent in a new language (especially Go, which isn't that difficult to learn), there is no way I'd hire you to program in any language.
Programming ability is multi-dimensional: not everyone is a top-notch as programming language geek AND an algorist AND an architect/designer AND systems hacker. Nonetheless, a programmer should have some aptitude in each of these areas, even if they shine particularly in only one.
A more eloquent summary of this thesis can be found at:
With Node you still need to write in an event-based style, which is something devs often complain about working with Node.js.
"With goroutines and channels, you can say 'I'm going to send a message to another goroutine or wait for a message from another goroutine', but you don't have to actually leave the function you're in to do that," Gerrand says. "That lets you write asynchronous code in a synchronous style. As people, we're much better suited to writing about things in a synchronous style."
from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/05/google_go/page4.html