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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by weberc2 on Friday July 08, 2016 @10:43AM (#12055885)
That's not been my experience, and I'm a Python developer by trade. Python simply doesn't scale well with code size, team size, performance requirements, etc.

Go's biggest problem is a lack of generics, which means that in some cases, you have to fall back to duck typing. So the worst case is no worse than Python's best case.

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Re:Why Python Is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (2014) by BuckRogers on Saturday July 09, 2016 @02:45AM (#12060443)
My largest Go project has been 40KLOC, after which I felt that Python would've been at least 25% more productive.

The next-step isn't Go. It's Elixir. Or Rust if you need a systems language.

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