[MetaCosm]

I have OCR in production live written in pure Go. It does OCR on small specific portions of images to get keywords out to be put into a DB (1B+ page scans). We use tesseract for full page scans (when needed, when our OCR fails). But Go was so easy to write, and so fast to get live for small page partials that we wrote it in a few weeks (idea to live, just implementing well known algorithms) to avoid having to deal with tesseract overhead in the average case.

I am curious about specifically where you got bound up -- and how we managed to via ignorance or blind luck avoid these rough patches. Additionally, I am not 100% sure I understand why you refactor cycle is so brutal. That generally is one of the things I enjoy about Go, lightspeed refactor / dev / test cycles.

Good thing no one is asking you to use Go, Haskell is always around (and Elixir, I guess... I am too used to Erlang syntax, Elixir feels like an ill fitting glove) and we need lots of great languages -- and they SHOULD feel different and some shouldn't be a great fit for you.