[jzelinskie]

It does take Google ~100k lines to load balance their MySQL servers, so the size of your program is still highly dependent on how simple you want to make it. I'm 21 and spending most of my time writing Go -- there aren't many "ins and outs" required to learn. I find that it is very idiomatic to write simple solutions and simply take advantage of interfaces if someone wants to implement a more specific piece of your code base. If you want to learn Go well all you have to do is read the spec[1] and the source code of at least some portion of the standard library.

As an aside, this project is interesting. I've been kinda curious of experimenting on a project like this on my own. However, I wish the author's documentation opened with what ideas from what papers inspired the project.

[1] http://golang.org/ref/spec