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Re:Go success stories from around the web by goatlover on Saturday October 01, 2016 @05:47PM (#12620032)
Why would you pick Go over Julia for that domain? Julia was made specifically for scientific computing, it's performant, has better array and number support, and allows unicode for mathematical variable and function names. It also has excellent concurrency like Go, but most of the work on the language and libraries is centered around data engineering and scientific computing.

People can use whatever language works for them, and Go has it's plusses, but I would hate to see popularity get in the way of a good new language like Julia in a domain it was intended for. It would be like if R were relatively new, and everyone wanted to use Javascript instead for statistical computing. Use the right tool for the job.

Re:Go success stories from around the web by IndianAstronaut on Sunday October 02, 2016 @04:29AM (#12621514)
People want one tool to do all their work. Which is why Python took off in the ML and scientific computing space. The same language you use for data analytics is the same one you use for ETL, building a web backend, interfacing with the system, etc.
Re:Go success stories from around the web by josep2 on Saturday October 01, 2016 @06:25PM (#12620151)
I've looked at Julia once or twice but at the time it wasn't mature enough to do what I needed. Sounds like I should give it another look though.