[langsamer]

It's not only syntax, I think Erlang although a very good language, puts you in a different mode of thinking. This might be a good thing, but it also makes it harder to find developers to work on your project as they are less abundant.

[enneff]

How's the deployment story for Erlang? One attractive feature of Go is that it produces self-contained* binaries that can be easily deployed to your production hardware. No other setup required.

(*Go's net package links against libc to get around domain resolution issues on various broken systems. This can be disabled if you want a truly standalone binary.)

[krasin]

Andrew,

deployment story for Erlang is not as simplistic as in Go, but it allows much more, including deploying and running several versions simultaneously, hot patching or live profiling. The philosophy of Erlang/OTP is drastically different from Go/Google production, so it's not easy to have a direct comparison.