[robmccoll]

Trolling or not, comment is unproductive. Might I suggest offering alternatives such as rehashing the "rust is arguably a better design with similar goals" vs "rust's library isn't as complete and the language isn't stable" debate?

I have been writing Go code professionally nearly every day for 6 months. Would I rather be writing C? Probably. Python? Not on a project of this scale. C++? Toss up. Java? No - doing far to much interfacing to C libs for that. Rust? Probably. Go is far from perfect, but honestly not that bad.

[kibwen]

Comparing Rust to Go is equally unproductive, given that they target wildly different use cases and embody dramatically different philosophies. You might as well compare Lua to Objective-C, or OCaml to Malebolge.

[codygman]

What advantages does Go have over Erlang?

[sacado2]

It can be learned by a programmer knowing only imperative C-family languages in a couple of hours, meaning I can hire any average developer and make him productive in less than a week. Not the same as teaching pure functional style with pattern-matching and prolog's syntax. Go is also much more efficient. It also produces static executables and can be easier to deploy -- or not, depending on the exact situation. It handles strings nicely -- anything other than Erlang's approach to strings is nice.

Erlang has other advantages, though. 99.9999999% uptime and hot code replacement are easier with it, for instance. Their ideal niches don't completely overlap.

[codygman]

I believe I can agree to the above statements.

[commentzorro]

What advantages does Erlang have over Factor?

[codygman]

I don't know much about Factor, it's a Forth implementation right? Just inspired by Forth?

Either way, the example[0] I was greeted with on the homepage[1] is quite awesome. Does it have an actor implementation like Erlang? How does it handle concurrency?

0:

    USING: io kernel sequences
    http.client xml xml.data xml.traversal ;

    "http://factorcode.org" http-get nip string>xml
    "a" deep-tags-named
    [ "href" attr ] map
    [ print ] each

1: http://factorcode.org/