Doing some researching for my upcoming OSCON talk, ran across the following thread on golang-nuts, a Google Group dedicated to GoLang:

Silly question – why?. As in, why GoLang? A terrific thread for my OSCON talk. Note the originator of the thread: furby themselves. Spooky / scary / affirming / wow that’s amazing coincidence.

(For why that’s spooky / scary / affirming – check out my post describing my intended talk – Furby driven by Gobot, a robotics/IOT framework built upon GoLang.)