Use the right tool for the job. https://julialang.org/ <https://julialang.org/blog/> or ask on gonum-dev
On Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 8:18:21 PM UTC+3, Leo R wrote: > > Hi Gophers! > I was thinking to start a Go project in the area of Data Science that > would allow for convenient and easy concurrent data processing but at the > end decided against it mainly because of two reasons: > > (1) Almost all data science projects start with a data exploratory > analysis of some sort. Unfortunately, Go does not have REPL. Go Playground > is not a substitute, for it does not preserve state. On every iteration > Playground recompiles and relaunches the entire program, reads all the data > anew, performs all the calculations. Not good for an interactive "rapid > fire". > REPL in a static AOT compiled language is hard, yet Swift somehow managed > to implement it. > > (2) Even if somebody implements incremental Go compiler and provides a > proper REPL, people will be longing for data analysis "at your fingertips", > missing rich pandas-like API, overloaded operators (python style) and > dynamical scoping (like in R). Minimalistic design of Go is unlikely to > accommodate all of these "convenience" constructs and for a good reason. > > I think Go has a place in highly performant concurrent data pipelines and > transformations but I am less optimistic it would ever play in the field > dominated currently by Python and R and possibly by Julia in the future. I > am curious of what am I missing in this line of thinking? > > Thanks, > --Leo > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/e6ca5e0f-f3e1-4854-b782-90cbdb952428%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
