Parse: How We Moved Our API from Ruby to Go and Saved Our Sanity
blog.parse.comDiscussion from six days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9693743
This presumes you had sanity to save, which sounds really professional I guess. You wouldn't want to port a code base as a way to learn go and have fun that's not PC for some reason.
Edit: > Plus it seemed really fun. So, Go it was.
woot!
Sounds like they would have ended up with C# if the CLR and Roslyn had been open sourced already.