I'm curious as to why Go wasn't a final contender? It started off with Go being ...

pquerna · on Dec 18, 2011

Go's core packages are good.

Go's not-in-core packages are a mixed bag. Lots of "one off" experiment projects. Which is fine, thats where it is in its life. Node.js was in the same place packages wise 18 months ago.

Additionally, at the time we were looking at this, Go was still doing releases every 2 weeks -- this was months before the Go 1.0 plan was even announced: http://blog.golang.org/2011/10/preview-of-go-version-1.html

peregrine · on Dec 21, 2011

Thanks! I am playing around with Go and you are right the packages are a mixed bag. Not to mention using a search engine is basically impossible.