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Re:Python 3 can revive Python by tptacek on Monday May 26, 2014 @11:03PM (#7802650)
We see Golang in production in our practice pretty regularly. Not many shops use it exclusively, but it pops up in backend systems. You're right that there are things Python does that are painful in Golang (SQL databases are a good example), but the things Golang does better than Python/Ruby, it does way, way better than Python/Ruby.

Python is, of course, ubiquitous among startups and west coast tech companies; it is basically Startup Java.

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Re:Python 3 can revive Python by dvirsky on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @07:20AM (#7803861)
We switched some of our services from Python to Go and are very happy. To be more precise - we chose Go over Python for new projects that would have been developed in Python a year ago; we didn't rewrite anything from scratch in Go - though we'll probably do it for a couple of services.

I don't see us stopping using Python any time soon and not just for the legacy factor and cost of switching. It has its place, and Go has its shortcomings, and together they make a nice balance.

BTW we'd also love to move to Python 3 because of Unicode issues, but currently we have so many 3rd party libraries that are Python 2.7 only, that it's not feasible.

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