Re:Go + Services = One Goliath Project
by dangoor on Saturday December 21, 2019 @08:42PM
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I _like_ Python. Even released a Python web framework. I think there are many projects it's a good fit for, which is why it's continuing to be quite successful, despite the pain of Python 3.
But that doesn't mean it's a great fit for all projects. Personally, I've come to find that code in statically typed languages is easier to maintain over time, especially from a big team. I guess a lot of Python folks agree, which is why Python 3 allows static typing as well.
At a certain point, server costs _do_ add up to real money and some applications are not purely database-bound. Go's tooling makes it almost as fast to work with as a scripting language, but with much better performance. The language itself is certainly not as succinct as Python, but I think it has made reasonable tradeoffs.
Also: there's already a lot of JVM on the web.
Finally, I'll just note that _not all_ Python 3 migrations are that hard. It depends on a lot on the libraries used.
But that doesn't mean it's a great fit for all projects. Personally, I've come to find that code in statically typed languages is easier to maintain over time, especially from a big team. I guess a lot of Python folks agree, which is why Python 3 allows static typing as well.
At a certain point, server costs _do_ add up to real money and some applications are not purely database-bound. Go's tooling makes it almost as fast to work with as a scripting language, but with much better performance. The language itself is certainly not as succinct as Python, but I think it has made reasonable tradeoffs.
Also: there's already a lot of JVM on the web.
Finally, I'll just note that _not all_ Python 3 migrations are that hard. It depends on a lot on the libraries used.