Re:Why we switched from Python to Go
by slackingoff2017 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @11:36AM
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And most of those other companies like Facebook are writing endless hacks, VM's, or entire languages to fix the slow runtime :)
Sorry, I have no interest in getting into a religious flamewar. I will only say that I find it weird that you think that there aren't endless hacks and VMs in [insert here the languages you like].
Re:Why we switched from Python to Go
by slackingoff2017 on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @07:11PM
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Eh, vanilla Java or Go is at least an order of magnitude faster than those other languages without messing with anything. You can mess around with the JVM and interfacing to native code but it's rarely needed because it's already within a low multiple of C performance writing things normally.
Arguments about what language is better are pretty flamey but it's hard to argue that performance is not an advantage of Go/Java
You answered your own question. Why bother with those languages when the language isn't the bottleneck? In those cases, what language one uses becomes an entirely subjective matter.
> All the big companies are [...]
For every large company using Java, Go, Rust, C, etc. There's another one (hell, probably the same one) also using Python, Ruby, PHP or JS.