low power, high frequency, rugged, ... I say, these things might be useful

Is Mudge still available?

"${subject} ${verb} ${object}," said a source inside the ${CurrentPresident} ${administration} who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

Yes, all that is true, but the fact is, it doesn't matter. There's no point in reducing CO2 levels. Even if we stopped emitting CO2 completely, NOW, down to 0%, no combustion of fuel AT ALL, it would still be thousands of years before CO2 levels reached pre-industrial levels. We've made our bed, now we have to sleep in it. Just get used to a radically altered ecosystem. It's too late now to fix it. We'll adapt, maybe live underground breathing taxable air. For billions of years, this is the way it has been. Hey, if the pre-Cambrian biota hadn't irrevocably polluted the atmosphere with oxygen, we wouldn't even have evolved. Tough luck for them, but we're on top now. Oh, the "conservatives" want to remove CO2 from the atmosphere to preserve the status quo. Good luck with that, conservatives. It's very expensive and produces no profit that you can use to redecorate your huge Central Park West apartment.

Go is quite nice. The compiler is very fast and strict, catching many errors. It really helps to write bullet proof code.
The language itself has many high level constructs, functional programming, multithreading is built in, objects, etc.
The runtime catches lots of errors, too, array bounds checking, for example. It's a well thought out language that is designed to help you avoid common mistakes. Yet it also has dynamic types and other powerful features. It's pretty neat.

The big difference that makes this silly is how cheap it is to fix these problems. We've got technical solutions for all security issues, but nobody uses them. Fire the programmers who get caught writing buffer overflow vulnerabilities. This is like firing building contractors who use substandard nails. After the roof blows off it's too late. Don't let your inspectors get away with being bribed. Don't tolerate substandard work. All these problems have been solved, we just have to fire the idiots who don't use them. Liability, anyone? When a building falls down, who is responsible? God? Or the architect and building contractors? Just stop letting your engineers get away with, what we should now consider to be, criminal negligence. Seriously, storing passwords in the clear? You're fired!

Ron Paul issues executive order to bring all troops home. It is ignored.

Obama issued an executive order closing gitmo, almost his first act as president. It wasn't obeyed

Ah yes, the British Empire. And how well did that work out?