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I was expecting an article like this to showcase some real advantages of Go over python, but the cornerstone of the argument is a reference to authority and a c
by avz 13y ago
I was expecting an article like this to showcase some real advantages of Go over python, but the cornerstone of the argument is a reference to authority and a claim that it is faster. This is very disappointing, especially given the focus on concurrency and not performance.
The article never mentioned any of a number of interesting and relevant concepts like channels, goroutines or CSP. The specific problem of doing small amount of work in the background is easily solved using goroutines, but this isn't even mentioned and the Go code sample at the end is barely relevant to the rest of the discussion.
Also, I find the derision of Erlang to be out of place in an article on Go and concurrency since both Go and Erlang base their concurrency model on CSP (albeit with significant differences in interpretation).