> I often describe Go as the strongly-typed, more performant version of Python.
I've heard Go described this way several times, but I've found it to be a significantly lower-level language than Python.
For example, it's much more verbose. In this recent blog post [0], the author converts some C++ code to Go - and it gets longer. 57 lines of C++ become 65 lines of Go. The same code in Python is about 20 lines.
In particular, the author's Go code requires five lines to do the equivalent of Python's `with open(path) as f` and four lines for the equivalent of `word_array = list(word_counts.items())`:
f, err := os.Open(path)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer f.Close()
// [...]
wordArray := make([]WordCount, 0, len(wordCounts))
for word, count := range wordCounts {
wordArray = append(wordArray, WordCount{word: word, count: count})
}