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> Go is so small you could hold the spec in your hand and it's going to be faster and more efficient than python as well as safer to modify thanks to type safety.

I think it's very naive to think that the value of a language in a corporation is limited to its syntax or compilation speed.

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If I had limited my analysis to just those things you would have a point. I didn't though. errnoh provided the justification OP was missing. The pre Go1 api changes where a very fast moving target so reducing that maintenance burden was a valid concern. My response was just consternation at the desire to rewrite something when the language is simultaneously easy to learn, safer to modify, and probably faster and more efficient at the task than the language you rewrote it to.

Not just compilation (which is apple-to-oranges since python is bytecode-compiled and then interpreted/JIT compiled), but also execution speed, which means that you need less hardware to do the same job. That's definitely worth something in some cases.

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