[crawshaw]

Java solved a number of problems, but introduced some of its own.

The work I do in C++ I could do in Java, but the extra memory and compute overhead would cost us on the order of another engineer. Go interests me because it might let me escape C++ without the cost of Java. (Go may still prove too expensive, my experiments aren't done yet.)

Also: Go developers have the Python ethos of short names and simple interfaces. Take a look at the Go standard library[1]. I may get the safety of Java and the productivity of Python in one go.

[1] http://golang.org/pkg/