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I picked up python and Go at the same time. Go is much easier, logical, faster, uses less memory, and has common-sense stuff like unicode handling built-in. I

I picked up python and Go at the same time. Go is much easier, logical, faster, uses less memory, and has common-sense stuff like unicode handling built-in. I only use Python for the same reason I use Java: all the NLP / ML frameworks built by people who don't know Go yet.

alehander42 9y ago
Go is nice for its niche, and it can be very cool after using Python. Still it feels too simplistic and limited as a language to me, which includes the "low level" part: it's not "optimally" fast and it's not very easy to interop with other languages