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Man, Google sure is good at marketing their language. Front page of HN like every day.

Why can't people love Go not because of Google, but the language itself?

Don't be deceived by your hate towards any specific company, otherwise you will miss a lot of beautiful, useful, adorable things in this world.

I do actually. Google isn't a company I'm to happy about these days, but I do like that they're spending at least some of the money earned from the advertising business on funding projects like Go.

Go isn't a language I've used in production, but it's something I'm playing around with. I really like the standard library, there's a few thing ( like variable assignment ) that just wrong, but overall it's really a fun language.

The main feature I really really want to make use of is the statically compiled binaries. Deployment just becomes so much easier compared to pretty much anything.

While I do see Go a lot, I don't usually see Dart.

People can just like the language, but the upvote system is anon...

As a gopher, in fact I don't feel that golang can be called "the Google's language". Google still relies on C++ a lot.

I believe in go because I trust the go team! Especially after reading Rob Pike's blog on the motivation of developing this language, I told myself, this language will Go far.

FYI: http://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponential...

I bet there are more postings about Rust than any other language these days.

From a theoretical standpoint, Rust is a far more interesting language.

... than any other language??? I am not talking about Go here. Rust gets more coverage than any other language these days.

From a practical standpoint, Go is -- at least for the time being. And this is not primarily a site for academic PL theorists, is it?

The potential for Rust to innovate in a space completely dominated by C and C++ in the past decade has piked the interest of people who had never considered any other language for development.

Go, in contrast, is fairly unremarkable language. That doesn't make it bad in any way (tried and true combined with a primary emphasis in maintainable software is a winning combo), it's just that it's attacking a space which many other languages have dealt with before.

The idiom is "piqued interest". Go has more "Piked interest".

"And this is not primarily a site for academic PL theorists, is it?"

Wait, this isn't LtU?

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