I was quoting Russ Cox

Please re-read the quote, there is no claim of execution performance. The quote was entirely about the time it takes for a proficient hacker to write a program in the three languages.

Just skip through the tour: http://tour.golang.org/ until you find something interesting to play with.

I don't think you fully grok what they have achieved. Google employs only a handful of people who work on Go, and probably not all them work full time on it (though maybe that's not true lately in the last release cycle).Let me give you a quote from an accomplished (hint, you use his code every day) C & C++ hacker on using Go:

Then when you only have to wait about 10 seconds or so for the whole Go std library *and* all your own libs and binaries to build, you can see it's value over waiting for large C++ projects (of which Google has many) to build.

// It is an unreasonable way to calculate pi.

At least one does: http://googleblog.blogspot.fr/2011/05/japan-prize-honors-googler-ken-thompson.html

So write in Go and import the C libs.

And what you consider non trivial must be very different from the rest of the world if all you ever do is reach for python.

The style, or your preference for a particular style, is not important in the least. What's important is the consistency. Really... *nobody* cares what style *you* prefer.

What's the point in that? Go is very expressive. Just write in Go instead of Python.

download.opensuse.org dynamically redirects your request using MirrorBrain so it's probably more accurate to say that the mirror geographically closest to your IP address is slow. As always, the fastest way to get openSUSE is via metalink but of course this needs a metalink capable downloader such as Aria2 or KGet. Pick your preferred iso image from here http://software.opensuse.org/112/en and select the metalink option.