" I would assume Go to beat Perl in performance in every real-world scenario but again - that's just the bonus."

What's your point? Selling Go? Sounds like a Go-ogle-gone fad like a few other languages.

"goroutines and channels are the killer-features for me".

As a retired street (ie. graffiti) artist, seems silly to jump on a bandwagon (freight train) to find you'll eventually end up in the trash.

Google messaging as my point. Dropped with no notification.

"goroutines and channels are the killer-features for me"

Well-defined and very protected backwards-compatible features is killer for me.