While it may be true, when it is posted without the proper context and an unbiased way to assess the outcome, this presentation will be used as "proof" that Go is better than Python. (which it might be, but not everywhere)
Possibly. But you'd expect most developers to be smart and impartial enough to read these statistics and take them as a case study rather than hold them as gospel.
Quite frankly, I'm getting a little sick of the arguments that happen on HN whenever a Go-related article comes up (and particularly so with Python vs Go). You get people who seem to hate Go who go all out to criticise Go and/or statically typed languages. Who argue that pro-Go articles are biased; and so forth. And then you get the Go fanboys (of which seem to be less vocal lately) who declare that Go is our lord and saviour and we should be rewriting core OS internals in it. It's just nuts. Sensible people would see that Go is better at some things and worse at others. And that articles like this are just an interesting case study and might not apply to their own personal software problems but not in any way biased beyond the fact that the article is tailored specifically to their own software problems.
I don't hate Go, as much as I detest the breathless fans of the language. I am a "former-ish" python programmer who now uses D for present projects with an eye towards Rust for building libraries and low-level system stuff. I also use Nim in place of Python for a few personal scripting projects.
All these languages are statically typed and in my understanding of Programming Languages, way better than Go.
Sorry, I didn't mean that as a dig against you specifically. Just a generalised comment as I've just noticed a backlash on HN wrt Go.
Nim's often interested me. I'd really love to try it but sadly it's lack of mainstream support means it would be hard to justify using Nim in any professional capacity, which vastly limits it's usefulness to me. And sadly I don't have enough free time to learn languages for fun these days.
Quite frankly, I'm getting a little sick of the arguments that happen on HN whenever a Go-related article comes up (and particularly so with Python vs Go). You get people who seem to hate Go who go all out to criticise Go and/or statically typed languages. Who argue that pro-Go articles are biased; and so forth. And then you get the Go fanboys (of which seem to be less vocal lately) who declare that Go is our lord and saviour and we should be rewriting core OS internals in it. It's just nuts. Sensible people would see that Go is better at some things and worse at others. And that articles like this are just an interesting case study and might not apply to their own personal software problems but not in any way biased beyond the fact that the article is tailored specifically to their own software problems.