On: Go vs. Python for a simple web server

[jff]

Unless he's updated it, his 2 year old Go code won't compile any more. 2 years ago, Go was a rapidly-churning target. Now, it's settled off to Go 1, but you'll have to go through and fix some changes--and there may now be better ways to do things.

[Benferhat → jff]

I'm sure you already know this, but for future readers: check out gofix [0] when you find yourself in this situation.

[0] http://golang.org/cmd/fix/

[1] http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/introducing-gofix.html