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by nl 4610 days ago
Google have some pretty critical software running on Go already (and have for a couple of years now). For example, their MySQL scaling proxy[1] is in Go.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/vitess/

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But it is very different to use something server-side in your own environment where you can deploy updates easily, vs. client side on devices where the wrong kind of bugs can wreak havoc for millions of uses and make updates to fix them extremely much more complicated.