Re:Grumpy: Go running Python
by alrs on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:29PM
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Because they want to get off of Python completely, and forever. They're not looking for speed, they're looking to ditch the liability of supporting Python and its ecosystem.
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Yeah, they didn't at all say that.
Re:Grumpy: Go running Python
by randomdata on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @07:30PM
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Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean it is not true. There are many reasons why Google may not want to reveal long-term plans so explicitly.
It's clear that existing Python codebases will be maintained for the foreseeable future – there would be no reason to build this otherwise – but this may signify a shift away from Python for new extensions to the project, as this now makes it possible to integrate Go packages with relative ease.