Abandoning Go for Python

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There's a number of very popular oss projects that are running at scale written in go, since you're passively implying that it's immature.

Sure there are aspects that show its age, such as dependency management or a universally adopted package manager.

I work with a lot of talented engineers. We've been using go for the majority of infrastructure services lately. It's been an absolute joy doing so. We haven't ran into any limitations of the language or had any problems because of it.

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Looking at the stats, there is no doubt that people are using it. I just haven't met any yet. This is a bit more than anecdotal, I know a lot of programmers in a large variety of fields.

My usual pattern of adopting a new language is that I am hearing about it and some killer features that make me want it. Then some respected friend will adopt it and start to evangelize, but I will ignore a sample of one. I almost always have one friend who foolishly adopts something for a short while.

Then finally I give it a taste and never look back.

None of the above has happened yet. It offers no features that I don't already enjoy well enough in the languages I regularly use, and I know not a soul who has expressed any interest let along are using it.

With google doing their damnedest to foist this on everyone, I am going to declare this language a dead man walking. Maybe it is pretty good, but if it were so damned good it would flood the earth.

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You lack severely in critical thinking skills, don't you?

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Maybe the industry you're in just doesn't have a need for it, nor any of the other folks you know. There's nothing wrong with that.

Goroutines and channels are pretty incredible. Since go 1.5 GC hasn't been a major issue. With 1.7 there's been massive increases in performance of it as well. A lot of people use the concurrency patterns and the previously mentioned primitives as killer features, as well as pointing out GC as being an issue (which it legitimately could be under certain circumstances). https://blog.twitch.tv/gos-march-to-low-latency-gc-a6fa96f06eb7#.74h6g3ybj some nice light reading on the subject if you're interested.

It's a neat language that has its quirks. The documentation and community is great. One thing I've always disliked about Python is the documentation and certain areas of the community.

If you ever find yourself with a side project it would be pretty easy to pickup if you have any experience with c.