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Performance wise Go is worlds ahead of Python.

• meddlepal 8y ago
  Sure, no strong disagreement there, but it doesn't matter for most operational and infrastructure tooling where the language and ecosystem really seems to have taken off. Hell it barely matters for most web services or apps once you factor in database or other IO latency. It does have a nifty concurrency system. I do like that most Go code is idiomatic because the language really kind of restricts you to writing it a certain way. I wish it had a less verbose way of dealing with errors... some kind of function composition along with better formalization of Go's multi-return (e.g. Try, Either types) would be nice... of course without generics that is likely tricky. I'm happy I can read and write it, but for my personal work I'll be sticking with some mix of Python and Java/Kotlin. I think in 2019 I'm going to really give Rust a shot.
  • PhilippGille 8y ago
    Go 2 will get better error handling, error types and generics: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draft.md https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...
    • meddlepal 8y ago
      Interesting, thanks! But at the same time who knows how long it will be until Go 2 exists and even then the migration will be probably be longer than desired.