Summary:

At a GoSF meetup audience member asked if Go was reliable...

- Op was surprised because he had been using it in production for nearly 3 years.

- Previously used it at a Financial Company (wholesaler for institutional share traders and stock brokers).

- Op used it previously for system Monitoring, as a data store and messaging middleware.

- Go's adoption is gathering pace thanks to the terse syntax, straightforward powerful standard library, excellent tooling and concurrency primitives. [Sic. And performance]

- Go's core development team a reason for why it is showing maturity beyond it's years.

- Op changed positions so he could work on Go full-time.