Re:What's New in Python 3.11?
by toyg on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:57AM
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> self-contained executables
This really is the only practical area where Go is superior to Python. No messing with 3rd-party libs, no compromises, no hacks... Everything else is not really critical for most people, and largely not worth losing all the nicer features of Python for; if they could just fix it once and for all in stdlib, just blessing one compilation format and making it well-supported on all the big platforms, it would be a big step forward for the ecosystem.
Re:What's New in Python 3.11?
by Jcowell on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @12:43PM
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Agreed. If python had a sensible self contain executable where I don’t have to fight and figure out how I’m going to share this program with it’s dependencies and imports I would use it over go in non speed needed applications.
This really is the only practical area where Go is superior to Python. No messing with 3rd-party libs, no compromises, no hacks... Everything else is not really critical for most people, and largely not worth losing all the nicer features of Python for; if they could just fix it once and for all in stdlib, just blessing one compilation format and making it well-supported on all the big platforms, it would be a big step forward for the ecosystem.
Easier said that done, of course.