> Careful with that assumption. A pure Go application will in many cases be more performant than a pure Python one, but Python has a better C interop story. In

> Careful with that assumption. A pure Go application will in many cases be more performant than a pure Python one, but Python has a better C interop story. In the particular cases of parsing XML and JSON, I'd wager Python is much faster, actually. Using encoding/json maybe but also using 3rd party libraries? jsoniter is pretty fast, I just ran some tests and for my use cases it outperformed Python.