[SkyMarshal]

None of those will lose if there's a renaissance in the JVM platform. Go is a competitor to C more than the JVM, and is a FOSS Google product that's becoming their 4th official language and is not going away. Clojure is part and parcel of that JVM renaissance. And Node is coming to dominate client-side development by underpinning an emerging build tool standard - Gruntjs, and arguably the CommonJS-based Browserify, which will dwarf the parts of Node that compete with the JVM. None of these are heavily threatened by a server-side JVM renaissance.

[eropple]

Go isn't a competitor to C. Having a mandatory garbage collector makes that pretty clear. Go is instead a competitor to the legion of other high level, predominantly application-focused languages: Ruby, Python, Java.

Rust is an alternative to C and C++, but Go doesn't have a claim to that.