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For larger stuff, yes. For small stuff, no. If you just need to get something small done quick and dirty, python will be easier and faster.

• jerf 7y ago
  Yes. My current estimate of the cutover, for myself, is about three weeks of solid, 40hour/week development. After that, my Python (or other dynamic language) starts the process of seizing up, where instead of rewriting some module I just put a little hack in there to make it backwards compatible with other code, since I haven't got a great way of being quite sure what's calling this code, so I use a __setitem__ or have a function that takes "a thing or an array of that thing", and I find myself increasingly reluctant to refactor the Python. YMMV on the exact number, but that's been my experience several times now. I know it can be done; I've seen it done, I've done it myself. But refactoring without even the rudimentary static type system Go has just becomes an increasing nightmare at scale. And I use unit testing in Python, etc. But, flipside, yes, Go isn't a great language for just bashing a script together in. Maybe not the worst, with a bit of library work, but not a great language.