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by yumaikas 3421 days ago
Actually, Go was born out of a desire to make something better than c++ for google scale and style use. https://commandcenter.blogspot.it/2012/06/less-is-exponentia...

It just happens that Go is a better replacement for python than c++ in the general case.

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Yeah, one of the cool things about go is it's ability to get reasonable compile times without byzantine management of include files, as in c++. I still don't know of any major c++ code base being targeted by go, whereas python is certainly in the crosshairs.