[skybrian]

Well, there's one less thing for Go programmers to worry about now.

The problem with being a language advocate is than when "competing" languages improve you start thinking it's bad news for your side. I try to avoid that. If Go improves it's good news for everyone, if only because we all benefit from stronger competition.

[d3ckard]

I do not feel like a language advocate. Go is great language for a number of appliances and its growing popularity shows it. I didn't have time yet to tinker with it myself, but I certainly intend to.

My point was that strength of Erlang/OTP was never in processing power/speed, but in designing the runtime so it actually solves most problems regarding distribution. Go, as far as I understand it, was created with different goal in mind - to enable fast and parallel processing. It does not make it better or worse, just different. What I'm saying is that solving garbage collection issue (and only partially, when we're at it) is not what makes in competitive in comparison to Erlang, because Erlang was designed with totally different goal in mind.