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Memcached's author (Brad Fitzpatrick) is a Go user, and wrote a memcache client for Go.

Go has a bunch of good stuff surrounding SQL. I haven't used MySQL, personally, so I can't comment on which MySQL driver is best, but I know YouTube uses Go for something related to MySQL, though I can't say for certain exactly what. http://code.google.com/p/vitess

The goauth2 (http://code.google.com/p/goauth2) library is written by Brad Fitzpatrick and Andrew Gerrand (two members of the Go team), and is stable.

Logging is great. Interfaces make it really, really flexible. I'm not sure what you mean by tracing. Stacktraces? Those are easy to retrieve: http://golang.org/pkg/runtime/debug/#Stack

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Well, Go has a bunch of libraries for different SQL servers. I wouldn't go so far as to say it has lots of good SQL stuff; it's in approximately the same place as C is w.r.t. databases.

Having to interface with complicated SQL is a reason not to use Go (but not an insurmountable one).

I think it has lots of good SQL stuff just because I think it laid a nice foundation for developers to build SQL libraries on, and I think there's a lot of potential for using SQL in Go to get dramatically better in the next year or so. That said, I'm not an SQL expert or even very competent, so I'm probably not the best to comment on it--I just included it for the sake of addressing all the points.

I would agree, though--working with SQL is the worst part of the software I'm currently writing in Go. I think that's more a praise of working with Go than a condemnation of its SQL support, though.

> it's in approximately the same place as C is w.r.t. databases.

I think the existence of a standardized interface like `database/sql` makes things strictly better.

An anecdote: I started making a new web application using MySQL. As soon as I realized the error of my ways (not because of the driver), I swapped out a single import from the MySQL driver to the PostgreSQL driver, and everything continued to work as it did before.

[EDIT] Anyone care to explain the down-votes?

The downvotes are likely because they're reading your MySQL-to-Postgres anecdote as the firing of a shot in an unrelated battle many love to hate, if not a mild troll.

Ah, right. My bad. The folly is still fresh, and there is still a bit of pent-up rage that I hadn't made this discovery sooner.

Brad Fitzpatrick is not just a Go user, he is a core Go developer :-).

Yeah, I noted that later on in the comment. :)

There's also the mgo library for MongoDB which is probably one of the best Mongo libraries out there (even 10gen thinks so): http://labix.org/mgo

And http://github.com/lib/pq for Postgres.

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