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Re:Python Is Eating the World by KirinDave on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:06AM (#20672848)
Many of my complaints about Python are valid for Go, except that Go makes even more perilous decisions than Python for error handling (and the community kinda gleefully embraces it).

But at least Go is a lot faster and has real concurrency AND parallelism, so it's definitely better than Python.

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by WaxProlix on Monday August 12, 2019 @02:22AM (#20672910)
Go makes worse decisions even, I'd say. Python has gevent, one of the best and most friendly greenlet libs around too, so the concurrency/parallel issues seem fairly moot. It's true that the batteries-included versions of things, while mostly easy to use, falter at scale.
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Re:Python Is Eating the World by aikah on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:50AM (#20674235)
> so the concurrency/parallel issues seem fairly moot.

Python has the GIL, so true parallelism can only be achieved with basically cloning a process X times the number of processors on a computer and inter process communication.

Go doesn't have this problem.

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