Any HN readers of this post have any similar experience?
I know the bright team over at bit.ly made a successful switch from python to go-- anyone else?
The more I hear about go, the more I like it.
I know the bright team over at bit.ly made a successful switch from python to go-- anyone else?
The more I hear about go, the more I like it.
The ecosystem has a long way to go (compared to Python), but goroutines and channels are a pleasure to work with. It's nice being statically typed again, and I really like object composition versus Python's inheritance. Resource usage for my cases is much lower, latency is much lower, throughput is much higher, and my deploy/provisioning scripts are a lot more simple due to Go's static compilation.
At my day job, we may start mixing in Go for background tasks that are a bit too slow/inefficient in our current Python stack. I could also see it being a good fit for some of our more high traffic HTTP APIs.
"We identified early on that Go had all the makings of a language that could supersede some of the places we would have traditionally turned to C and some of the places where we wanted to move away from Python."