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Discussion on: Go or Python and why?

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Meyer Zinn

It should be noted that Go was created essentially by Google to solve some performance issues they encountered with Python at scale. That said, for most applications that aren't Google scale, it comes down to the other factors, such as developer productivity.

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Victor Bordo

Good point!

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Thomas Junkツ

AFAIK one of the main driving factors was the pain, they felt with C++.