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By switching this early to Go you'd have to write much of what is available as third party libraries in Python yourself.

by uggedal 17y ago

Estragon 17y ago
Yeah, this is my main reaction, too. I couldn't switch until something like scipy was available.
davecardwell 17y ago
On the upside, this gives you the ability to be the one that implements and open-sources some of the later heavily-used libraries and to carve a name for yourself in a burgeoning Go community. This would hopefully lead on to job opportunities down the road.
- chaosmachine 17y ago
  This is a very good point. Getting in ahead of the curve on up-and-coming open source projects is an excellent way to become an in-demand consultant/freelancer/contractor. I managed to get in fairly early on Drupal, and it's been a nice source of work over the years.
bioweek 17y ago
I'm hoping someday in the future your statement will sound silly. There's got to be some way we can avoiding rewriting all the libraries every time a new language comes around.
- davecardwell 17y ago
  The Parrot VM [http://www.parrot.org/ http://www.parrot.org/] has been discussed here before: [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552850 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552850] Projects like this might help, but I suspect there will always be someone willing to port a library to be native.
- camccann 17y ago
  Well, auto-generating cross-language bindings so that you can make function calls between code written in arbitrary languages would be a good start. Limited subsets of this exist, usually variations on "how to call C libraries from other languages" since that's the most common scenario. For example, there's SWIG: http://www.swig.org/ http://www.swig.org/ Unfortunately, there tend to be subtle issues of impedance mismatch that make cross-languages bindings never feel quite right.
- jshen 17y ago
  clojure, scala, jruby, etc all can use java's large source of libraries.

By switching this early to Go you'd have to write much of what is available as third party libraries in Python yourself.

by uggedal 17y ago

By switching this early to Go you'd have to write much of what is available as third party libraries in Python yourself.

Estragon 17y ago

Yeah, this is my main reaction, too. I couldn't switch until something like scipy was available.

davecardwell 17y ago

On the upside, this gives you the ability to be the one that implements and open-sources some of the later heavily-used libraries and to carve a name for yourself in a burgeoning Go community. This would hopefully lead on to job opportunities down the road.

chaosmachine 17y ago
This is a very good point. Getting in ahead of the curve on up-and-coming open source projects is an excellent way to become an in-demand consultant/freelancer/contractor. I managed to get in fairly early on Drupal, and it's been a nice source of work over the years.

bioweek 17y ago

I'm hoping someday in the future your statement will sound silly. There's got to be some way we can avoiding rewriting all the libraries every time a new language comes around.

davecardwell 17y ago
The Parrot VM [http://www.parrot.org/ http://www.parrot.org/] has been discussed here before: [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552850 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552850] Projects like this might help, but I suspect there will always be someone willing to port a library to be native.
camccann 17y ago
Well, auto-generating cross-language bindings so that you can make function calls between code written in arbitrary languages would be a good start. Limited subsets of this exist, usually variations on "how to call C libraries from other languages" since that's the most common scenario. For example, there's SWIG: http://www.swig.org/ http://www.swig.org/ Unfortunately, there tend to be subtle issues of impedance mismatch that make cross-languages bindings never feel quite right.
jshen 17y ago
clojure, scala, jruby, etc all can use java's large source of libraries.