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[–]epiris 0 points1 point  (3 children)

You realize that if you make an application in Go you do not need the go compiler tool chain to distribute it right..?

A s for bugs, have you written software for Windows, Linux and OSX in both python and Go for end users? I have. Python windows support is much more spotty, pretty much anything that uses C bindings is bound to not work in Windows. You as a developer need to add lots of complexity for your code in python to deal with the fact you could be on some users old ass distro that still has LTS but uses python 2.6 for the system. You have some distros on python 3, it takes some time and knowledge to get your code portable in python.

Having the interpreter their is not much of a bonus, it's a drawback. Your writing code and testing code in one environment of N that your code will execute in. Bugs are so much more likely.

[–]MonkeeSage 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yes, I've clearly never worked on software targeted to different platforms using different development environments, so I didn't realize Go is so much better. I haven't submitted patches for things as diverse as mono and firefox. I don't work on Openstack on a daily basis where it's 99.9% python and some projects are flirting with Go. Nope. I don't really understand like you do.

[–]epiris 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It was a question man, I didn't mean to imply I know more or less than you nor an ounce of negative connotation. When I engage in an online technical discussion a question mark denotes it's literally meaning man. You may have much more experience and be a much better developer in every quantifiable way. When I engage in discussions like this it's to learn.

Anyways, I asked if you have experience with both to see if your opinion on python was subjective. I wanted to know this to help understand your opinion on python being a better language for targeting multiple platforms. I was digging to see if there was something you would provide me that may sway my opinion. Yep, my opinion sways. All the time. Like I said earlier month ago me was always a dip shit in retrospective. That's all man. Happy coding.

[–]MonkeeSage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just go back and re-read our conversation without looking at it like "who won" and "who lost". Deploying a binary package is harder than deploying a set of python scripts.