I don't work at Shopify, but I've been grateful to them for allowing many of the local dev meetups here in the Ottawa area to use their fantastic space for our meetings. So I am glad to see things going so well for them.
But, in addition to the organizers that run these awesome events, Shopify actually did something about it. AFAIK they will be keeping the lounge after they move to Elgin, which is a nice gesture; it has become a hub to many people outside the company.
This has not been confirmed.
They're a paragon of the developer community and they host a variety of developer-related events on a regular basis, for example the recent Random Hacks of Kindness[1] event.
I've been dabbling in Go lately and Shopify seems like the only place in Ottawa that's using it to support their bottom line.
That said, I've recently had a dire need for concurrency on a personal project and Go fits the role very perfectly. It's also a very "clean" language to work with, and I distinctly get the impression that doing things "the Go way" leaves very little opportunity to do "dirty" things.
The Go language designers did a very nice job at creating something quite robust without making it excessively verbose.
It's too bad I just missed out on that humanitarian hack-a-thon. Sounds like it would have been fun and worthwhile.