>Go has been criticized for "not paying attention to PL research", which might be true, but is already extremely useful and even before its first 'stable' release people already have used to build large systems used in production.
Is that a factor of being a better language (for some value of "better"), or of being marketed by famous people working for a famous company?
I really do mean this. Pike et al have Google behind them, and thus not only the Google publicity machine but a whole team of Googlers working actively on making Go work. BitC was a creature of, IIRC, 8 people working on research, and possibly their grad-students if that number doesn't include grad-students already.
Is that a factor of being a better language (for some value of "better"), or of being marketed by famous people working for a famous company?
I really do mean this. Pike et al have Google behind them, and thus not only the Google publicity machine but a whole team of Googlers working actively on making Go work. BitC was a creature of, IIRC, 8 people working on research, and possibly their grad-students if that number doesn't include grad-students already.