Perhaps the first time I've ever upvoted an action by Putin. And it's well deserved, here.

I wish the Vala folks would get going. 18 months ago, Vala, Go, and Rust were all possible native language successors to C++. (D was the fourth prospect.) But Vala has advanced so little, it's becoming an afterthought.

The web site is an afterhought that sits like an interloper on the GNOME site. The Windows distros are years old, etc. It's too bad. They had a good idea; they just failed to execute.

A good read. You can tell from the language and the terminology that the concepts were not mainstream as they are today.

I agree with the sentiment. However, I hesitate to embrace Dart, after Google killed off a huge number of APIs earlier this year. Go seems to have much more traction at Google so I think it is safe, but Dart still has an experimental feel to it. I'd like to hear a long-term commitment from Google to Dart before I really jump in.

From what I see, Go is not really meant for web development. I think Google's real bet on web and general app development will be Dart, as Go looks more like a C++ replacement. Also from the project page, I see like 80 people are committing to Dart so that sounds pretty promising ( https://code.google.com/p/dart/people/list ).

Go is certainly meant for the server-side of web development, but I guess the phrase web-dev is often intended to mean client-side only.

Agreed with your update. A better treatment than this post re what the history of segmented sleep means for us today is presented in this article, which just appeared in the NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/rethinking-...