As some of the world knows full well by now, I’ve been noodling with Go for a few years, working through its pros, its cons, and thinking a lot about how humans use code to express thoughts and ideas. Go’s got a lot of neat use cases, suited to particular problems, and used in the right place, you can see some clear massive wins. I’ve started writing Debian tooling in Go, because it’s a pretty natural fit. Go’s fairly tight, and overhead shouldn’t be taken up by your operating sys...
