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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 2:38 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
>> On the whole though I think that the language is not yet mature enough
>> to be able to seriously compete with more established languages like
>> Python or Java.
>
> Also, is there anything seriously lacking in Python, Java and C?
>
> I was very interested in Go when it came out, but was turned off by the
> fact that you had so have a Google account to effectively participate in
> the community.

Concurrency is one area where Go beats Python hands down.  The newish
multiprocessing module helps with that, but it is still rather heavy
compared to the light-weight processes used by Go's goroutines.