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Re:Show HN: Getting started with Go and Martini by gtrubetskoy on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:59PM (#9447996)
Yes, services is where Go has a huge advantage over Python and Ruby in particular because of their inability to leverage SMP due to the GIL. With Go you don't need to run a whole bunch of processes behind haproxy or whatever which makes life much easier.
Re:Show HN: Getting started with Go and Martini by dragonwriter on Monday April 27, 2015 @05:43PM (#9449289)
> Yes, services is where Go has a huge advantage over Python and Ruby in particular because of their inability to leverage SMP due to the GIL.

That would be an advantage of Go-as-a-language over Ruby-as-a-language in a world where JRuby didn't exist.