Hello, I'm a computer scientist in charge of developing an image processing pipeline for telescope images. It will also have a web server and DB connection.
The project is going through reviews by external experts, and the problem I'm facing is that my proposal to use Go is about to be rejected. The main opposing arguments are - everybody uses python in astrophysics - it is very easy to find someone who knows python - risk that I, sole Go programmer, might become unavailable I would have the same arguments if I was project leader and unfamiliar with Go. The counter arguments I found so far are that - Go is simpler and safer than Python - I learned Go in a week-end The problem is that they don't convince people who don't know Go, are not experienced software developers, and don't want to do the due diligence. It's the usual inertia to change. What other arguments could I use ? Do you know other significant scientific experiments that have adopted Go ? I have found this github project. https://github.com/indigo-astronomy/indigo INDI is a well known Python Observatory Control System. INDIGO is its translation into Go. I have also found SciPipe https://github.com/scipipe. It is a Go pipeline framework used in scientific applications. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
