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Replace "Go" with "PHP" and ask yourself if such a claim is a strong validation of a technology...'

As a programmer using Go, I think the comparison is spot on -- if you credit Go for having a much cleaner architecture, vastly better design around security, and profoundly well thought out trade offs.

With some work on libraries and tooling, Go could well become the basis of the next PHP, and become the tool of choice for small web projects. If this happened, the world would be a better (in terms of software-sanity, performance, and security) place.