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Go targets a number of performance sensitive systems programming contexts where Python would be completely inappropriate.

Its beauty is that there is so little to it. You don’t need StackOverflow to discover/debug a clever way of expressing something because there is no clever way. It feels limiting until you learn the idioms.

Package management has indeed been extremely painful, particularly in the Glide era, but Dep and VGO are both solid.




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