If you can think in terms of pipes, Go makes you /productive/. I 
recognized that about 13 hours into learning Go about two years ago.

My advice as an aphorism: "redo something you've done at least once 
before, in go, and see how different it it. Then decide if it's better"

--dave

On 2018-11-29 8:33 p.m., Dave Taht wrote:
> as remarkable as our efforts have been to reduce network bloat, I have
> to take my hat off to the
> golang garbage collection folk, also.
>
> Reductions in latencies from 300ms to 500us in 4 years. Good story
> here about how latency is cumulative:
>
> https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote
>
> The very first thing I learned about go, was how to turn off the
> garbage collector. I guess I have to go learn some go, for real, now.
>
-- 
David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
davecb@spamcop.net           |                      -- Mark Twain