/prog/s opinion on Go

You know, the google thing.  Personally I'm a bit excited for a compiled python-like C language.  It's going to take for fucking ever for it to become useful, though, especially with google's slow and steady attitude.  I could see it catching on though kind of like python did.

These quibbles are still completely and utterly trivial. If you have to care deeply about your L1 cache performance, you write *that specific function*, or those few hundred lines of code, in C or assembly anyway. No one is arguing this.

But writing an entire program in C because 0.1% of it needs to be fast is, well, insane.

Can we please just grant that you'll write that 0.1% in C, and take this discussion back to the actual high-level semantics of Go?