I have been using [Go](http://golang.org/) more seriously recently. I am extremely impressed with the language.

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I haven't used a statically typed language for anything serious in the past. Most of my experience has been with Python (a dynamically typed language.)

I am beginning to see the benefits of a statically typed language. Especially as the system grows. Type checking is extremely useful and starting to wish it was there in Python.

The more I think back to many of the bugs fixed in my Python web applications I realize they would be non-existent in Go.

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What impresses me the most are I/O streams, networking support and goroutines. The combination of those three things is absolutely mind blowing.

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Go's `func` keyword was originally `function`. During a meeting with Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Larry said it should be `func`.

Source: Rob Pike during his keynote at GopherCon 2014

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A perfect example of how lovely Go can be:

https://gist.github.com/brosner/4b381f5ab42ccbb9374b

This code is from Gondor's router during spin (being ported from original Python so not complete yet.)

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One of the most powerful aspects to Go are its interfaces. See http://talks.golang.org/2015/json.slide for some mind blowing ideas for JSON decoding.

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`io.Reader` interface awesomeness: http://play.golang.org/p/Nlf1OzK9WN