[stevedonovan]

Yes, same feeling I had, but with dual mode; can be compiled as a 'standalone' service over HTTP/REST (or whatever) and _also_ compiled as a classic module with a strictly defined interface.

One cool thing about standalone services which needs to be factored in is that they can be spun up and debugged very easily. But for deployment, we pay for all the network latency/marshaling overhead, and coordination complexity.

So, best of both worlds? As for polyglot, there does have to be a shared platform (C ABI, JVM, etc). (Go doesn't play so nicely with other languages due to goroutine stack allocation.)