[grey-area]

Many other tools are good for web dev too, but having played around with it I'd say in principle Go is well suited to it, if you don't mind the lack of mature frameworks/libraries. I don't see why the syntax gets in the way of it being web friendly, which bit did you think would be a problem?

Deployment is far simpler with no libraries/gems/packages - single binary

Memory usage is an order of magnitude smaller than languages like Ruby or Java.

It's pretty fast (much faster than Ruby for example)

String manipulation isn't too painful - all the tools are there for manipulating unicode text and producing html.

Why not?

[taude]

The "deployment" theme is pretty common that I keep hearing. Definitely something that sounds appealing.