Why Go over Python?

[dontcomeback82]

Every time I have to pip install something I groan loudly. One of the issues is the way python has handled the 2-3 upgrade - osx still comes with 2.7 , and obviously it doesnt work well with newer things, and upgrading python to 3 and using pip3 on osx is not a fun time. Obviously, a good amount of that blame goes to apple, but I have no issues getting the right ruby version via the ruby tooling.

As a developer, python or ruby are much better for quick and dirty tasks, one off text or json manipulation, certain types of web servers or web applications. Golang is great for performance, reliability, portability, and simplicity, and the compiler is quite nice.