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Discussion on: Go or Python and why?

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Albert • Edited

Yes he is planning on building an app that will high performance, security and a one that will scale as it grows. He is actually considering a dating app . He is from a perl background

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Meghan (she/her)

Is he planning on making this as a desktop app? Because unless the answer is yes, neither of those languages are possible options.

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Albert

No web app

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Anton

Go with Go.

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Chris James

If he is considering building something "proper" he should probably try both languages to see what he likes.

9/10 Go will be a lot more performant than python. But quite often it's not the programming language which really limits your performance.