nice. I've been waiting to see some full-text search engine in Go for a while to compete with the omnipresent Lucene. Things like Go's low memory footprint could give it an important advantage in this area. This looks like a first step in that direction.
I hadn't realized that CLucene was still active, thanks!
Apache Lucy is another option that might appeal if you consider Lucene bloated. It's written in C, and while there aren't Go bindings yet, there's great interest in providing them and a couple people starting on them: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucy-user/201308.mb...
As for other non-Java Lucene alternatives, Sphinx works great, is compact and the C++ code is fairly easy to pick up enough of to make modifications if needed:
What about idzebra? It's written in C, it predates Lucene and it was used as the indexing system for Harvest (the origin of Squid).
What is more likely than "low memory footprint" to give an indexing system written in Go an advantage over alternatives is the marketing of Go. It seems the language is being promoted nearly every day on HN's front page. If this is any indication of usage trends among developers, the Go Authors must be pleased.
