Go has nothing on Python in this regard. I write Go every day, and come from a Python background. I often describe Go as the strongly-typed, more performant version of Python. I say this mostly because my Go code isn't too dissimilar from my Python code (structure, naming, packages). But I still drop into Python if I want to do something quickly. I don't really know why. Maybe it's the Go tooling, e.g. unused variables cause compilation errors, so things like this slow me down. Or maybe it's because Python just offers _so_ much out of the box, e.g. all the data structures you'll ever need (list, set, dict, tuples), and all small things you take for granted (like writing "is a in list", which would require a function in Go). The REPL is Python's killer feature.