Python is rapidly becoming the lingua franca of data science; but there the vast majority of your inner loop isn't Python (numpy, scipy, pandas, numba, theano; C, Fortran, assembler, Cython, LLVM, CUDA...).
Basically Python is the glue language data people wanted, it turns out.
The best parts of python... are C.
Re:Trying out this Go thing at Disqus
by nostrademons on Thursday May 23, 2013 @06:04PM
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The most-frequently-executed parts of Python are C. The best part is being able to glue all those together easily.
Re:Trying out this Go thing at Disqus
by bayesianhorse on Thursday May 23, 2013 @02:54PM
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It will be a matter of years. I for one, am developing stuff today.
As are most of us lol. I would say if you want to use golang for a serious project and need additional libs you have to ready to write it yourself, which grants the opportunity to give back to the community and contribute to open source etc.
Given the age of the language I would assume building out its associated toolchain is only a matter of time. Python didnt ship with Django, Numpy, Pandas...