Re:Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python
by pointyhat on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @08:21AM
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He should try Go. I'd say it's half way between Java and Python.
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Re:Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python
by sigzero on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @10:30AM
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It has no penetration. Java and Python are both widely used in the industry. Go is not.
Re:Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python
by vegai on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @11:22AM
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Go is about 2 years old. Python just turned 30.
Penetration will come.
Re:Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python
by sigzero on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @01:40PM
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Will it? I don't think it will. There are a plethora of languages right now and people write more all the time. Go doesn't bring anything "special" to the table to give it Enterprise penetration. People are pretty entrenched with what is out there and it would take some confluence of events to make Go have penetration like Java, Python and others.
Re:Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python
by pointyhat on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @04:51PM
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"Enterprise penetration" has traditionally been a matter of time, not features. Enterprise software is definitely on its way out so I get the feeling it will not need to penetrate.
Re:Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python
by tmhedberg on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @12:28PM
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Python is 20 years old, though your point stands regardless.
Re:Tom Pinckney: Why I gave up on Java and switched to Python
by vegai on Friday August 05, 2011 @01:13AM
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Gah :(