Reposurgeon’s Excellent Journey and the Waning of Python
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python is bad because: GIL Unhappy with python 2 to 3 management Unhappy with python 3 unicode philosophy Library paths
Why Go is good: Faster "small semantic difference"
The tone is quite abrasive and he says that within the year unless python makes dramatic changes, Go is going to take the python developers.
For my comment - he goes into detail about his specific requirement for massive performance on large datasets, doesn't really say why Cython didn't solve the speed problem. I don't think a large fraction of people have those requirements.
The two reasons I think a Go is unlikely to completely swamp python in the near future:
people who need python libraries people who have a strong aversion to a strongly typed language with a primitive typesystem