Go is amazing, period.
Here's a summary of the article:* author cannot write portable C sockets code* author cannot handle C/C++* author believes his app would be too slow in Python, later abandons App, but retains his bias against Python* Go has no parens for if/for* Go has unicode support* Go has closures "like salt shakers"* Go is cohesively designed* Go has nice librariesGo may or may not be a good language, but this kind of argument is not going to win me over.