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Something that slightly bothered me: Pike was asked if go would have something like rubygems, and he said he had no idea what ruby gems are and how ruby handles third party packages.

This is troubling because I've written a couple libraries for go, and it would be awesome to have something similar to rubygems or pypi to distribute them.

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I got that impression with go a bit. It did feel like there were a couple of things omitted from the language simply because the authors had never experienced them done correctly.

Exceptions always comes up as the big one, but the more subtle part of a concurrent system that erlang did really well was allow you to monitor processes for crash. You can abort a goroutine early, but nobody can hear about it.

Of course, you can also segfault the thing using a null pointer dereference, but you can't do anything other than have your entire application fail.

Yeah I get this feeling a lot. If you're working with formats like json and yaml, there really isn't an adequate way to represent those formats in Go (something as natural as python dictionaries or ruby hashes)

What's wrong with "map[string] interface{}"?

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