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Re:Swift is Open Source by wbsgrepit on Thursday December 03, 2015 @05:58PM (#10673365)
My understanding is that beyond the examples you talk about that go is being used extensively in google as a backend glue language for automation and services.

https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

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Re:Swift is Open Source by coldtea on Thursday December 03, 2015 @06:28PM (#10673522)
>as a backend glue language for automation and services.

Which again is not "at scale" (except in the sense that this automation manages thousands of servers etc).

It's what people used to use Tcl, Perl, Python, etc for.

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