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by infinotize 3599 days ago
What makes you choose Go over Python for simple services and utility scripts? (I'm just learning Go but would heavily lean towards Python for those things)
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Off the top of my head:

- Ease of deployment. It's a standalone binary - I don't have to ensure python and all needed libraries are installed/configured.

- I like Go's standard library - it usually has everything I need to whip up a basic network service easily.

- Better/easier concurrency support.

- It's faster than Python (though that's usually not incredibly important most of the time).