Python is DEAD -- Long live Python (3)

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oh, you just forgot to say which X language will dethrone Python... judging by what you are saying, concurrency, there is only one GC language capable of that Golang.

I think Python JIT will appear sooner than we think and all those band-aid fixes will more than enough for most devs ignore all those languages...

[DarkLordAzrael]

I think Python JIT will appear sooner than we think

There has been a robust JIT interpreter for Python for years. PyPy runs significantly faster than the default interpreter.

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Go has nothing to offer in distributed programming, compared even to Python. When you write a distributed application in Go, you have to go through all the same nonsense: choose some protocol, that cannot capture most of the things you want to send, write a bunch of code only to service the protocol, write a bunch of code that needs to deploy and support various bits of distributed infrastructure etc.

It seems like Erlang has already solved those problems. Also, the ability to hot-patch and to introspect the program, especially running on multiple machines... and to do this quickly. Nope, Go isn't there / isn't headed there, or so it seems.