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Personal opinions of what languages are "boring" aside: "Golang, not Python 3 is the obvious successor for people who want One Way To Do Everything."

Uhh, what? I'm not even sure why you're comparing Golang to Python. One is a compiled language that specializes in concurrency and the other is a interpreted scripting language. They're for completely different purposes. Python3 was never intended to be a "one way to do everything language".

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That isn't the first time such a comparison has been made, and the people making it are always remarking more on the culture surrounding the language than its implementation details (not that the latter are irrelevant, but Python certainly could be a Compiled Language™ if Guido so chose). The takeaway here is that both Go and Python codebases lend themselves to team efforts between early contributors and new arrivals, because the set of idioms you'll find is very consistent from one codebase to the next. This promotes a certain confidence in teams working on very large projects, as well as tools that must be maintained for a long period of time. It's a hard thing to measure. You certainly won't identify it just by asking what features the language has.

>Python3 was never intended to be a "one way to do everything language".

Python's motto is "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." - its not meant that Python should be the only tool, but that written python code should only have one have common implementation. (https://wiki.python.org/moin/TOOWTDI)

Golang also seems to share the same ideal when it comes to written code.

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