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Re:The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (2009) by sidlls on Saturday September 17, 2016 @11:55AM (#12521014)
Go is mainstream? In what universe? These are mainstream languages today: C, C++, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and C#. The vast majority of all applications written today are written using one of those languages. Go barely registers inside the Bay Area bubble, and far less outside of it. If a "Python paradox" even is a thing, Go would certainly be a candidate. I think the "Python paradox" is a silly concept, though.
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Re:The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (2009) by TheMagicHorsey on Saturday September 17, 2016 @12:08PM (#12521053)
You may be right. I work in the Bay Area, and I see a lot of devops projects in Go these days. In fact, I'm hard pressed to find a new devops project that isn't in Go.

But I agree that the Bay Area, and San Francisco specifically, is a bit of a bubble. So its very possible that there is little Go traction in other cities.

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Re:The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (2009) by XorNot on Saturday September 17, 2016 @12:30PM (#12521153)
Go has devops traction because of it's deployment story. It solves a bunch of problems people have with trying to use Python for the types of things you do in devops.
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Re:The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (2009) by BerislavLopac on Saturday September 17, 2016 @04:28PM (#12522293)
Such as? I'm honestly interested what problems you have in mind, not implying that they don't exit.
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Re:The Python Paradox Is Now the Scala Paradox (2009) by bogomipz on Sunday September 18, 2016 @12:42PM (#12525946)
Distributing artifacts for one, a single self-contained binary in the case of Go vs a virtualenv or buildout for shipping and managing dependencies for a Python app.
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