Some thoughts on the Go language

[bovlb]

Google recently announced the GO language, and I've been looking at it with interest. Its aim is to be a systems programming language, say a replacement for C, with static type safety and good support for concurrency. The concurrency support is to have a language built-in go that conveniently launches an asynchronous thread of execution (a "go-

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[_rck_]

All in all, sounds a bit outdated and iffy.

Have you looked into Clojure, which has a big emphasis on agents and agent communication architectures? How do the two stack up against each other?