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Wondering if GO would be considered a good candidate in the 'exotic' category.

  -People seem to enjoy programming with it
  -Makes somethings very easy (concurrency)
  -Standardized formatting, makes everyone else's code easier to read or vice-verse.

Just not sure if people are doing 'work' yet or still mostly playing with it.

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From what I've seen, people spend more time mentioning it on every single PL related post on HN than either working or playing with it ;)

How do you know this is the case, that is people who talk about Go a lot do not use it? I often talk about Go on HN, I also use Go for my work and personal projects and write Go 10+ hours a day... Many of the people I see talk about Go on HN are active on github and golang-nuts... I know they are writing Go.

I've been writing minor tools in it for work and it's been a pleasure (the golang version of one of these tools offered an immediate 8x speedup on an hours-long task, compared to prior PHP versions, with minimal additional thought). I have yet to organize a large project around it, however.

That's an interesting question - which 'exotic' languages have the highest probability of becoming 'the new hot thing' at one point and when.

Watching the evolution of programming languages and programming jobs for the last two decades I still have no idea how to predict this; I can only believe in my intuition and bet.

Pretty sure it is a good bet. Just my opinion. It's endorsed by the most important internet company, and people I know and respect told me they like it.

What really made me love go is that when your code compiles, it probably (90%+) does what you wanted it to do.

I too am very curious about GO. I might pick it up sooner or later.

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