On 2017-12-06 10:56, Christophe Meessen wrote: > 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
And those are important arguments - especially if the "everybody uses" includes that there's important libraries only available for python. Though not for scientific experiments, I've find the best argument for Go over Python is better concurrency with lesser memory footprint. I have a python HTTP server where a single request can make a worker process size increase from 65Mb to 4.3Gb and the only way to make the OS reclaim that memory from the worker is to kill it off and spawn a new. That's the kind of moments you think "If only this was written in Go". But that might be totally irrelevant for a science application. Usually "if it ain't broken, don't fix it", applies. /Peter -- 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.
