Why Tech Startups Should Look at Go(startupedmonton.tumblr.com)

    if a, err := f(); err == nil {
        // do something with a
    } else {
        // do something with err
    }
 

    match f() {
        Ok(a) => { // do something with a }
        Err(err) => { // do something with err }
    }

  1. Less verbose code
  2. Platform Ind. + native binaries, no runtime dependency
  3. Built in unit testing/benching
  4. Fast compile time
  5. Better tooling, no Ant etc needed
  6. Better core language support for multithreading/concurrency
  7. A memory model that makes it easier to read the code and understand how the resulting data will be layed out in memory
  8. Related to 7, better stack vs heap allocation control